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.”
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 bud redhead the time chase crack
He knelt down and touched it. The crack was warm, pulsing like a vein. Through it, he saw himself at age nine, losing a red balloon at a fair. He saw his first wife laughing before she forgot his name. He saw next Tuesday’s lottery numbers, then watched them dissolve into ash. So he did
The crack whispered back: Chase me.