I live in a small rural town in southern Russia, and in the past year or so, a strange

further has arisen here regarding the flatter theory.

For the uninitiated is basically a theory which states that the earth is a plane or disk

as opposed to a sphere.

Not a nonsense of course, with so much of modern science disproving it.

More so I thought.

Just a couple of months ago, when I was invited to one of these stupid conventions

that have been popping up more and more frequently.

Now, usually, I'd scoff at whoever would even believe in this.

Much less, have the audacity to think I'm mentally impaired enough to want to attend one

of their cult gatherings, but this time it was different.

Anastasia, the girl who invited me, was one of my closest friends,

and someone whom I clicked with almost suddenly because she was one of the few rational people

in this superstitious town.

Heck, we were even in school science club together.

One of our favourite pastimes used to be poking holes in the countless folklore we'd always

heard growing up. Of course, I also had a crush on her, so forgive me if I wanted to take a

gander at this new obsession of hers.

Hey Alex, want to come with me to a fat earth convention tomorrow?

Recently, I've been attending and it's been really eye-opening.

My initial thoughts were that she was being sarcastic, however, the enthuse manner in which

she asked and settled me. It wasn't enthusiastic, in the sense, that we're going to blow the

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