SEQUENCE

A Short Story about Love

Merci M. Rodin — photograph by Sharon Hancock

I do believe in chances and miraculous, unintended perfection. The first proof: a thousand monkeys typing for a thousand years on a thousand typewriters will produce a masterpiece. Would it be like evolution — chaotic, cautious, only accidentally meaningful?

Or perhaps those thousand monkeys will put away their typewriters and perform some other feat, no less astonishing. Perhaps they will simply…