But Bud was stubborn. He grabbed the crack with both hands—felt it sting like a paper cut across ten dimensions—and folded it into a paper airplane. He threw it toward the setting sun.
This string of words feels like a surreal or experimental title—maybe a poem, a flash fiction, or a lyric. I’ll develop it as a with a dreamlike, noir-ish tone. Bud Redhead and the Time Chase Crack
So he did. He chased it through a rainstorm that fell upward, past clocks melting into puddles of brass, past a younger version of himself who tipped his hat and said, “Don’t fix it, Bud. It’s prettier broken.”
