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The Telemarketer’s Time Travel Twist

RWDrabble 2.0.041 | Word: Obtuse

Stephen Dalton
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3 min readFeb 10, 2025

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The random word is obtuse, and the setting is I am a telemarketer. We must use the first line, ‘If I could turn back time.’

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If I could turn back time… Would I want to? What would I screw up by doing so? Would my memory be altered so as not to remember those who were not created by the change?

Do you think I am obtuse for asking these questions about a hypothetical challenge? What if my screwing with the time continuum without a flux capacitor deprived me of my children forever, and I still had the memories of their existence?

I mean, I’m just a lowly telemarketer without a DeLorean.

Some things you need to be sure of before you take that leap.

Thanks to Nancy Oglesby, Lynn L. Alexander, Karen Schwartz, and Fiction Shorts for the daily challenge. 👇👇👇

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Stephen Dalton
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Written by Stephen Dalton

Stephen Dalton is a retired US Army First Sergeant with a degree in journalism from the University of Maryland. Top Writer in Investing, Business, & Bitcoin!

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