A Case of Mistaken Identity, Part 4

You can read part 3 here.

I can show you how. My double’s words reverberated inside my head.

He’d said he could show me another world. Suddenly, my room, the house, the world, even the stars in the sky, paled when held up to the blinding light of a cosmos much richer than I could ever have imagined.

I wanted to explore. I would often pretend that I was an astronaut or an adventurer; I’d had access to a host of secret worlds whose only keys lay within the confines of my imagination. Now, the adve...