Prompt du Jour
Time Traveler Successfully Alters History
A minor rumination on the consequences of successful time travel.
A Working Time Machine
In most case the first that springs mind when you hear that someone has a working Time Machine is BS. I don’t mean BS in the sense that baseball season is once again upon us, but refer to its more colloquial usage. However, truth will not be denied and there really is a working Time Machine. I possess it. Ans when it’s not traversing space and time I keep it lacked safely in my garage, complete with a modern security system.
Throw your preconceived notion of what a Time Machine should look like aside. It is nothing like a phone booth as popular fiction might suggest. It is more like a very large , large enough to hold a washing machine, cardboard box with strategic cutouts.
Entry is via a small door in the front. A standard, at least in appearance, knob opens the front door. The entire box is only 5 feet tall or 152 centimeters tall if you’re so inclined.
Inside the time traveller will find two bucket seats, possibly salvaged from a 1970s Subaru. Controls are mounted on a center panel. They include knobs to select latitude, longitude, and relative date. There is also a “Start”…
