Back in the summer of 2000, when I was deep into The Sentinel, I experienced a rare thing - inspiration. And not just for a ficlet, no, for a true story. Instead of packing my bags for my vacation in Greece, I stubbornly clung to my parents' computer and wrote down the following story in a daze:

Ripples in the Dirac Sea (or: The infinite Amount of Colors between Black and White)
Author: allaire mikháil
Fandom: The Sentinel
Pairing: Jim Ellison / Blair Sandburg
Rating: R
Summary: Life offers us many crossroads to choose from, and, no matter how we decide each time, we'll have to live with the consequences...
Beta thanks to: MoonShadow
9.319 words, drama, 3rd person POV.

The inspiration came from two short stories I'd found quite some time ago in a science fiction collection of my father's. Decisions. Crossroads. What if. The most interesting thought experiment ever.

edit: The quotes from both short stories, Geoffrey A. Landis' "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" and George Alec Effinger's "Schrödinger's Kitten", have now been taken directly from the original texts instead of been incorrectly translated.