[ WP ] She stumbled backward in terror as she watched her boyfriend become a beastly aberration , barely human .

`` This is real?'' she asked the assistant, a trim brunette. She could n't keep her eyes off of the screen. 
 
 `` Yes. The predictor programs are never wrong, or your money back.'' 
 
 The big screen, powered by magicks she had no grasp of, showed the man she had almost proposed to double in size, and his clothing melt away in fast forward until he wore only wife-beaters. She saw his cute wavy hair degrade like a time-lapse of deforestation. She watched the light leave his eyes. 
 
 God, she'd dodged a bullet. 
 
 She shook the assistant's hand and paid on her way out. A short vision into the future was cheaper than a full-length reading. She broke up him that night, although he also broke up with her. 
 
 The last thing he said was that he'd seen her future, too, and he did n't want any part of it. 
 
 And so they grew, apart and mangled.
