More about the smallest man in the world

  • The smallest man in the world is twenty-seven inches tall and a little bit.
  • The smallest man in the world stands in the hallway outside his 13-year old daughter’s room. He knocks for a while. “Honey?” he says. “Honey?” Sometimes he pretends to be a cat and scratches the door, and meows. “Honey? Would you mind opening up for a minute? Honey?”
  • His record for standing at her door is forty years.
  • Time moves differently for the smallest man in the world than it used to.
  • Like everybody, I know.
  • The smallest man in the world has a unique theory of time travel.
  • Time travel was eventually developed, is his theory. And ever since, time travel inventors have spent all their time traveling around in time to prevent other inventors from inventing time travel, too, because everyone wants a monopoly on it. And even if they don’t want a monopoly, they have to travel in time anyway, fucking with history, just to keep others from keeping them from inventing it, and as a result all of history is basically one giant war among time travelers, which explains a great deal.
  • The smallest man in the world calls it his Red Queen theory of time travel. Copyright Mig Living 2010.
  • “Honey?” says the smallest man in the world.