Learning to Love Time Loops Without Going Insane

Cal had told him several things before heading off into his stone realm, which Stan still didn’t fully understand, but things had gotten weird in his life recently. Bug could talk. Cal was a wizard. He knew way too much about the future and things about Stan that should be impossible. So Stan believed his son. He had also told him a story to tell a woman named Jen on their first date to convince her all of this was true.

Apparently on previous loops it had become harder and harder to hide the magic from her and it was just best to bring her into it. So Stan was here on a first date with years after the loss of his first wife, ready to tell a woman his son could do magic and the dog could talk and hope somehow she didn’t have him committed.

Halfway through the main course Stan looked at Jen and said “Jen, I have a story to tell you, please listen to the whole thing before you judge me. The first part is going to sound the strangest, but think about how it was possible for me to know. As a child you had a crush on Clifford the Big Red Dog, and you’ve never spoken that out loud or written it down before in your life.”

“How the fuck did you know that Stan? Are you some kind of mind reader?”

“Nope, but my dog talks and Cal can do magic.”