"Didn't we literally just do this?" Fiona asks.
I shrug. "Depends what order you read them in. For all we know, this is the first 750-word story of 2023 and the reader" - I wink at you - "is yet to find the other. Maybe they will
never
read the other and will never discover whether you get to suck Deadpool's cock."
"Or whether you get to -"
"Spoilers!"
Fiona laughs. "Isn't this all a cheat, then? A sneaky way to get around the 750-word limit?"
"I guess that's up to Laurel..." I glance around, but don't see her. "I guess the editor's behind a fifth wall. But anyway, I want to do something different with this one: Interactive Fiction."
Fiona frowns. "I don't get it."
"Of course not. It hasn't been implemented yet, but maybe next year I'll be able to do this:"
I wave my hand and Fiona's clothes magically disappear.
I wave my hand and Fiona magically disappears.
"Hey!" she hisses, and glares briefly at you as she hastily covers her nipples with her hands. "We're in public!"
"Please. We're all consenting adults. But here's the interesting thing: If these two 750-word stories were actually one interactive story, where the reader got to choose between this pretentious nonsense and the other -"
"You think you're so clever, don't you," she interrupts, and I grin impishly.
"- then technically the reader would be reading both scenarios simultaneously and we would exist in a quantum superposition of narrative consequences. The moment the reader gets bored with this current waveform - and let's face it, this isn't the most erotic of stories - they collapse it and we cease to exist!"
Fiona nods. "And we don't want that to happen."
"No."
"I guess we'd better have sex."
"How about a slow-burn erotic romance between two married women?"