Stasis: Darren works every day from 9 to 5 running his family's laundromat "The Bowsher Washer." He spends his days supervising the building, reading books, and dreaming of going to the exotic worlds of the characters he reads of. While he primarily is the only employee at the business, he answers to his father nearly everyday about what he is doing wrong.
Trigger: One day, while inspecting every machine (one of the many tedious tasks required by his father before closing) he spots a small coin of a currency that he does not recognize.
The Quest: After running his finger along the coin in an attempt to clean it off, he is whisked away and suddenly finds himself in some sort of marina area, although it doesn't seem modern at all. He soon finds that he has somehow has traveled in time and space, and believes that the coin had something to do with it.
Surprise: Soon Darren rubs the coin again, whisking him away to ancient chinese culture. He is soon attacked and tries again, bringing him to a barren arctic wasteland. He continues to repeat this into many different areas, soon to be encountered by a group of what seems to him to be monks, telling him to give them the coin and they will send him home. They seem very hostile to him, so he quickly escapes, into a standoff from a group of Spanish conquistadors. Soon a monk appears next to him. The monk is shot, and he whispers to Darren as he is dying that his kind control these coins, keeping them safe and out of the wrong hands.
Critical Choice: Darren escapes into a futuristic, prosperous city. Not like he often envisioned it, with flying cars and halograms, but how he wished it would be. No violence, no poverty, no trouble. However, after enjoying this world, he sees strange figures appear, looking for him. He realizes he must choose to find the monks in some other time instead of staying in his dream world.
Climax: After darting between times and places, trying his best to reach the place where he first ran into the monks, he ends up back into the future that he had been in, but now it is completely destroyed, fire burning down buildings, mobs running through the streets. The strange figures who have been terrorizing this world show up again to take the coin from him. He runs and finds one of the monks, and tosses the coin to him. Immediately, ends up where he first found the coin, in the same position, but with nothing in his hand.
Reversal: Upon arriving home, he goes to his father and tells him he will no longer be working with him, and has decided to open up a book store and attempt to become a writer.
Resolution: While working on his first novel and looking over the store that is just starting, a woman comes to him to buy a book that has been his favorite for years, one that he thought was completely unknown to others. She tells him that it is her favorite by far. They strike up a very nice conversation.
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