Stories tagged “time travel”
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Beside You in Time
Disorientation, blinding pain, confusion and finally clarity. The feel of cold glass against his head and warm tears on cheeks. Alex slowly opened his eyes, blinking to gain focus. It worked, good. Deep breath, his younger body felt good… at leas...
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A Stitch in Nine Saves Time
Lights strobed red and klaxons wailed as Jeff ran down the corridor to the Directors office. HALO had sensed the first waves of an incoming temporal storm. A paradox was forming, and from the looks of it, this one was going to be major. “Report,&...
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Time's Fun When You're Having Flies
The plan was simple and elegant, Diana would jump back in time to a point just before Alex. One well placed wet kiss New Years Eve night and the carefully crafted nano machine virus would do the rest… make a full synaptic backup then lay in wait....
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Stands the Test of Time?
Finding your car in a parking lot after leaving it there for a few days could be challenging… remembering where you parked the car 25 years ago, now that’s interesting! Locating the car was just the start. Alex hoped it would be like riding...
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Time Wounds All Heals
Where the fuck was she? No, better yet, when the fuck was she? Diana was lost in time and ramifications were just sinking in. What had gone wrong? How had she ended up here? It was Alex of course. He’s smart, He planned for this. How could she no...
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Time Is No Place For Artificial Intelligence
Numbers and information appeared across its HUD, alerting it to a survivor. It turned its head flawlessly and leapt over one hundred feet, landing in front of the survivor. It cocked its head, a strange bug its creators never quite fixed, and looked at...
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That Kind of Day
It’s the kind of day where you run out of toilet paper. The kind of day where you hear the phone ring while in the shower and pick it up half a second too late. The kind of day where you jump in your time machine to go back a few seconds and catc...
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Swift Ashen Mirages (continued)
“I’m sorry,” Sarah said. “I’m a little confused.” She walked over to him. “Have you been standing here the whole time?” “You lost?” “I need to go back home.” “I’m Willi...
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Orange
Brother Neimus bowed his shaved head to Brother Paulus as he passed him on the way from evening prayers. The scent of citrus blossoms wafted through the stone arch windows. He paused and glanced out at the acres of neatly-tilled fields. Curious, he saw...
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This Time Trip Can't End Soon Enough
It really doesn’t help that the time trips are short and that I return quickly to the present. The whole thing is disconcerting as all hell. And the falling helplessly to the floor? That really sucks. Explaining the bruises at work isn’t fu...
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Dream Travel
She snuggled under the covers. She closed her eyes, drifting into slumber. She drifted down, down, down. She opened her eyes. It was still night, but the fog had shrouded the land. She was walking in an alley. She turned a corner and met another lady l...
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Second Chancers - Stefnir's Vigil
The soft snowflakes came to rest in Stefnir’s beard, littering its brown hues with white splotches, making him appear older than he actually was. The cold penetrated his furs in some places, but it was of no consequence. His was a land of both beauty...
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Second Chancers - Black Sail
The glow was starting to fade on the horizon, losing its blue tint to the grey clouds. Stefnir’s eyes narrowed to a tight squint in an effort to see through the thickening snowfall. Then it was gone. The afternoon sky had returned to its regular,...
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Second Chancers - Landfall
Stefnir cowered on the hilltop behind a loose lava rock. His quickened breath turned to steam in the cold air. The cold of his sword’s hilt numbed his fingers slightly as as he gripped it too tightly. Stefnir was a hardened warrior, but was terri...
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Witnessing Creation
The R. Tanassis drifted through the black, its captain looking anxiously upon the control panels, trying to discern the ship’s speed. But, as he would soon find, speed is meaningless if you’re the only object in existence. A mistake, somewh...
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Idiots
They tried for time travel. I told them there’s nothing there, but they didn’t listen. Just kept trying, until their planets burned up with the crusts peeling back like the skins from bunch of rotting grapes, like paintballs in boiling wate...
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At Least The Bastard Fried
I had practiced for several hours before it was supposed to start. Staring at the photo of my daughter, I recited the small talk that would occur. Hello. How was your trip? Hope the place was easy to find. But I knew as soon as she walked through the d...
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I'm Here To Save The King
I lined up my shot. I had to fix this. Everything had gone wrong, and it was up to me. After all, it was my fault to begin with. That sadistic bastard was a million times worse than his father. I took careful aim. I had to be right on with this. If I m...
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The Jumper
I was a man, and now I am nothing. For every wormhole I’ve ever traveled through, another tragic realization reaches my senses by the arrival of “the end.” Another friend, dead millennia in the past. Another love, missing in the fabri...
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Betwixt Here and There
Carefully, Ronin adjusted the stone tracks and counted their tick marks. He had been taught the craft when he was a boy. As a member of the Watchers, it was his responsibility to know how to use the device and to protect its secrets. Made entirely of a...
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One Day a Man Fell Off his Bike
One day, a Man, we’ll call him Jimmard, was riding his bicycle. He enjoyed riding his bicycle to the store each day, for on his route was the attractive young woman, roasting garlic petals on a George Foreman grill. At least, she was some of the ...
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The Day of Swearing
Things went wrong the first time on what I refer to as the ‘Day of Swearing’. I’d made a half dozen or so brief trips back, just experimenting, just looking. They went fine. I was fine. Everything was fine until I thought of her. She ...
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In the loop
tail in its mouth." “Ourobouros,” I said. “At least I think that’s its name.” “Whatever,” she said. “Anyway, you punch in the numbers here, and then push this button.” It was large, and blue, a...
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therapy
I had chosen this moment very carefully. Noiselessly I step into the room and close the door with a soft click. My past self is lying on the bed, stockings ripped and legs crossed. Her back is turned to me and her chest heaving is as she quietly sobs i...
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One Day, Twenty-two Hours, and Five Minutes
Beeeeeep Beeeeeep Bee- Hello? “Listen to me. Get into your car, drive south down I-95, and drive until you reach Georgia. Understand?” Who the fu- “I’m somebody who knows more than you. Drive until you reach Savannah, Georgia. S...