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September 16th ‘s Droste Effect, A short story,
SEPTEMBER 16th ‘s DROSTE EFFECT
1ST MIRROR
September 16th 2017 at 08:00 am
On September 16, 2017 I got up at 08:00 am in the morning. I was in a terrific mood and after having taken my shower, I stood in front of my bathroom mirror when I noticed something was different.
I first saw myself but in the background I saw myself again in another mirror or in a copy of my mirror. It puzzled me that the second mirror seemed distant and close at the same time. The image was slowly getting distorted as it swirled and swirled and finally receded into an infinite background. I realized I had just been getting caught into a time loop. I had heard about these optical illusions. I just could not understand how I, Bill Sullivan, was caught in one of them. I began to panic: my worst fear had just materialized. The mirror reproduced me in another location. The mirror had taken my destiny over. I had no choice but to go along.
2nd MIRROR
September 16th at 10:00 am
I was now standing in a busy office. A calendar on the wall displayed the date. September the 16th, 1992. A man was seating across a bank of teletype machines and I knew I was in the financier Soros’ office and I was watching him in the process of bankrupting the Bank…
