The Good Version

No, see, this is the good version. Sure, in our current timeline, we obviously have corruption and climate change and cancer and opioids and almost no fish. But the other version was so much worse. Cracks in our tectonic plates turned entire oceans to deadly steam. Bears befriended people, only to betray us when we needed them most. All butterflies turned out to be both venomous and vengeful. Unregulated experimentation made rain metallic, a weather event to be feared, just like the lava cyclones. But—full transparency—the real reason I made this timeline is that in it, I still have you.