INTRODUCTION & DISCLAIMER - In the first few hours of his new reality in a strange alternate dimension where some things are exactly the same, some slightly altered, some significantly changed and where other things either do or don't exist contrary to all he knows, Corey has met new versions of his twin sister, stepsister, cousin and best friend. Who he hasn't met yet is his mother Marnie. What will Corey's mother be like in this crazy new world? Read Chapter 2 of 'Incest in Another Dimension' to find out.
All characters and situations in this story are completely fictional, with any similarity to real people living, dead or stuck in alternate realities coincidental and unintentional. Only characters aged 18 and over are involved in any sexual activity. Please enjoy and be sure to rate and comment, as feedback is always welcome.
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The drizzle falling all over Brisbane began to pick up again as Scott and I put my bike and helmet into the back of the car, with Jamie jumping into the driver's seat and me in the front passenger seat, still struggling with the possibility that I had somehow slipped into a parallel dimension. A dimension where some things were exactly the same, others things were slightly altered, things that were completely different and other things that either were completely missing from, there when they shouldn't have been, or did not exist in the normal world I had left.
"Don't forget the football tonight," said Scott.
"I'll be there," I said, pondering if perhaps by the time the Titans and Tigers game started, I would have slipped back to my normal reality.
Jamie started the car and we waved to Scott and Vicki as she backed down the driveway, me looking at the petite, pretty, pajama-clad teenager with her red hair in a high pony-tail as she drove down the road, scarcely able to believe that just yesterday she was a boy. And that I had just fucked her. In this reality, I was a cousin fucker.
"So, are you starting to feel better now?" Jamie asked, turning on the wipers as the drizzle turned to rain and the windscreen became saturated.
I nodded. "I think so."
"Good, because you're not normally like that," said Jamie. "I'm a sports science major, not a psychology major, I have no idea why my cousin woke up thinking that there was no daylight savings in Queensland and freaking out over New York City for some reason."
"You study sports science?" I asked. Girl Jamie in this world was obviously much more intelligent and studious than boy Jamie in the 'real' world.
"Yes, of course, you sound surprised. Don't tell me you'd forgotten that Corey, as well as everything else?" Jamie looked at me curiously.
"Um no, just maybe still getting back to normal," I said. Reaching into my backpack, I got my phone and quickly looked up my sister, stepsister and cousin on social media to see what they actually did so I didn't look stupid and completely nuts. Morgan as before was a trainee nurse, Heather was studying to be a physiotherapist and worked part time in an ice-cream shop and Jamie was studying sports science and worked part time at a DVD hire store. Wait, a DVD hire store? When was the last time I saw one of those? I guessed 2012 before it closed too, and the building had a long time vacant with a 'For Lease' sign, before becoming one of those boutique fitness centers.
"Your Mum asked me to fill up the car," said Jamie as she drove further up the road and turned into a petrol station.
I nodded and wouldn't have paid much attention save for wondering how Jamie with her bare feet would walk across the dirty service station concrete, then noticed that she had a pair of flip-flop thongs on the car floor for her to wear. I then noticed something far more interesting -- the type of petrol station it was. The brand was Golden Fleece, a company gone for years. It of course was not a Golden Fleece brand service station yesterday, nor the day before, but clearly it was now. This also explained how I saw a car with a Golden Fleece sticker the other night. Obviously this iconic Australian brand still existed in this strange alternate reality. Which other brands still existed? And which familiar brands from the 'real' world did not? I had no idea.
Jamie put on her flip-flops and went to fill up the car, me noticing some teenage boys on bikes perving on her in her pretty cartoon rabbit pajamas and her red hair up in a pony-tail. They weren't the only ones perving. At a nearby bowser a guy in his 30s was so absorbed in looking at Jamie as he filled up the car that it started to overflow. His heavily pregnant wife, trying to sort out a squabble between their toddler son and daughter in the back of the car, was anything but impressed by the situation.
I looked up Scott's social media, trying to figure out why he had become a cop instead of going into IT which had always been his passion. There were no apparent clues, but there were plenty of photos of him and Vicki together. One was at Byron Bay with the happy young couple holding hands with the lighthouse and blue sea in the background. Another was at the Gold Coast Hinterland and the scenic town of Mount Tambourine. Clearly it looked like a Sunday, the main street bustling as Scott and Vicki enjoyed some fudge together. There were other photos clearly taken the same day, one of Scott's parents who looked exactly the same. Also exactly the same was Scott's older sister Louise, her husband Mark and their young son and daughter.
Swiping through my phone, I looked up myself, and was relieved to see that I was still an accounting student who worked at the same department store and the same shopping center as before. It was fortunate in this reality I wasn't a trainee air traffic controller, or three years into medical school. Fuck that would have been a disaster.
A knock on the car's window made me jump, and to my relief it was Jamie, back from paying for the fuel. She laughed at the success of her practical joke, then came around and got into the driver's seat and started it up. Driving out of the service station, Jamie stopped for traffic, and I looked out the window at the large man walking towards the car, masticating a jam and cream-filled donut, some of the jam dripping on his tee-shirt through which his enormous stomach protruded. A tee-shirt that showed considerable stains from mud -- oh shit!
I looked out the car window and saw the fat man, the fat man looked into the car and saw me, and it was fortunate Jamie got a break in the traffic and took it, because the fat guy was not happy to see me again. And he wasn't about to let it go either.
"You!" he roared at me, shaking his fist and bellowing after the car. "You again! Get out of that car right now and come here so I can smash you! You heard me you asshole, get over here now piece of shit! I'm coming to get you! Do you hear me, you fucking dickhead? I'm going to kill you!"
Jamie glanced in the rear-view mirror as the enraged fat man, his face bright red and contorted with fury, but his voice was fading now as she drove away, increasing her speed.
"What did you do to upset Jabba the Hutt back there?" she asked.
"I um -- kind of splashed him with water when I cycled over," I said, wondering if the furious fat man existed in the real world, and if he did, what was his alternate personality like?
"Wow, he doesn't like you," Jamie said, shaking her head.
"No," I agreed, hoping I would not encounter him again.
Jamie laughed, seeming to read my mind. "Don't worry, I think all you would have to do if he came to get to you would be walk away briskly."
"I hope so," I said. Now it was my turn to laugh. "I like what you said, about him looking like Jabba the Hutt."
"Yeah, I think they could have designed Jabba the Hutt using him," Jamie agreed.
"I heard they designed the character from a cane toad," I said.
Jamie looked blankly at me. "What's a cane toad?"
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised given everything else that had happened, but it was still strange to hear this, especially from a Queenslander. Hastily, I looked up cane toads on my phone and showed the images to Jamie while she was stopped at a traffic light.
My cousin recoiled. "Ugh, what an ugly creature. I mean I love frogs, but those toads are just horrible. Like you said, just like Jabba the Hutt. I wouldn't want to meet one for real."
"I don't blame you," I said, reading an article on my phone about how cane toads were found in countries in Central and South America close to the tropics. There was however no mention of the invasive amphibians being introduced to Australia to control beetles in the sugar cane plantations of Queensland, and in the decades since then becoming a serious pest across the state, and spreading into the Northern Territory, Western Australia and New South Wales too.
"Adam is going to end up looking like Jabba the Hutt the way he is going," said Jamie. "That's if he's my brother this week, he might be my sister, or my non-binary hermaphrodite sibling with no clear gender, who uses these stupid they and them pronouns."
"Wait, what does Adam do?" I asked, still thinking about the Adam I knew, the arrogant, fit, very masculine male, with no sense of enjoyment for fiction at all.
"It's this new thing, Adam wants us to refer to him as them or they," said Jamie. "Like Mum will ask, 'Where is Adam?' and Dad or I are supposed to reply 'They're outside in the garden' rather than 'He's outside in the garden'. It's fucking stupid. Even Adam wanting us to refer to him as a girl was better than this."
"That sounds absolutely insane," I said.