Eugene's Perfect World

Is there such a thing as too much perfection?

It’s 2225, and Eugene Spencer lives in a Perfect World.

In Eugene’s Perfect World, a pandemic is a regionally-specific pizza; the Ganges River is the purest, most drinkable water in the world; and Russians have been voted the world’s loveliest tourists five years in a row.

In Eugene’s Perfect World, there are no diseases, no murders, and no accidents. Eugene is thirty-two and will remain thirty-two until the day he dies, which is never, because in Eugene’s Perfect World, no one dies.

Perfect.

Yet, for Eugene, something’s amiss. He’s no longer happy being a perfectly boring accountant with a perfect, accountant-issue family. Eugene craves something new, something wrong, something awful – the freezer icing up or the twins getting a B in French.

Then, one fateful night, he finds someone who can take his craving for awfulness even further, a lot further.

Eugene’s Perfect World is a darkly humorous short story about human nature and how even a perfect world isn’t always perfect enough.