Fish Gone Cold

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The Plot:

Upon visiting an old junk shop, Jimmy the accordion player stumbles upon an old fishbowl and a note. The note says:

Fish gone cold

Fish gone gold

A Thousand Lakes

A Single Way

Having piqued his curiosity, Jimmy takes the fishbowl and puts the note in his pocket. When he gets home, he shows the note to his wife and cleans the bowl before putting it on the table.

When they were about to sleep, a loud knock on the door roused them from their beds. Opening the door, Jimmy saw a man, bloodied and dying on the doorstep. As he takes his last breath, the man says: “Hide it. Hide it…”

The man is from the future and wanted to warn Jimmy of something, but what was it? What was he supposed to find?

It didn’t matter; the bad soldiers from the future came the next day.

The Hanger:

Jimmy dies valiantly trying to hide the fishbowl from the men, and they were able to get away with the fishbowl and back to the future.

It turns out that the future is governed by merciless robots, who managed to freeze human hearts to make them stop caring about their world and what was happening in it.

Meanwhile, Jimmy’s wife read the note that came with the fishbowl and realizes that it was the more important item Jimmy brought home yesterday because it contained a code to a musical note that, when played by a skilled accordionist, “thaws” humans’ frozen heart.

The Twist:

The “fish” signifies human heart and all its capacity for compassion, and the thousand lakes represent the tears that would eventually follow upon hearing the music from the note.