A woman sits at a pond.

The woman hold out a piece of bread to a duck.

The duck approaches.

The woman pulls out a gun.

The duck quacks and nibbles at the bread, unknowing of the fate that may befall it.

As the bullet travels though the duck its body goes limp.

The universe disapproves of this this timeline.

A crack begins to spread as a flurry of feathers fall from the sky.

A grandma watches her son fall down the stairs, the universe laughs at her misfortune.

The grandma disapproves, Her disapproval sends a crack across the universe.

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The bread in the hands of a woman grows moldy with the stench of rot.

The duck disapproves.

A crack in the universe swallows it whole, it folds down upon itself infinity to a single point before regaining its form.

A bloody young man at the bottom of a set of stairs dies as the sweet taste of bread lingers in his mouth.

The bread disapproves.

The disapproval causes a catastrophic collapse of reality itself.

The universe reinstates itself as a duck rises from its worthless grave and proceeds to nibble on a piece of bread in a startled womans hands.

The ducks greedy eyes peer at the slice of bread.

Its neck extends with slow precise movements, as if a surgical scalpel, ready to save the life of young man who has been shot.

The duck shivers in anticipation as its beak slowly shears though the bread, breaking off a small piece.

As the duck lowers its head to take another bite, a shot is fired at the duck.

It misses, lodging itself in a man sitting close to the pond.

The man is rushed to a hospital.

A doctor preforms surgery with with the precision of a duck slowly gnawing at a piece of bread.

The wound left a scar.

later in his life he will have a heart attack from it, and will fall down the stairs of his grandmas bakery.

as the fresh scent of bread mixes with the putrid smell of blood.