Time-travel

[free]

Dear travellers, welcome aboard to our most recent time-machine. Our beautiful stewardesses will check your tickets and do their best to make you feel comfortable.

This time we travel into the past. Our first stop is 10.000 hours ago. The famous celebrity claims his dire «yes» to his charming bride. Look how lovely they are!

Next stop is 10.000 days ago. The two ministers sign an agreement on economic cooperation between their two countries. Look, how serious they are.

Next is 10.000 years ago. One of our younger travellers is being born. Look, how sweet the baby is and how happy the parents are.

Rumour among the travellers. «Skip it, please! Let's go much further, please!»

Ok. Next, 10.000 by 10.000 centuries ago. Wow! Something really great's happening here. Let's get out of the ship and look around a while.

(A quotation from TV news: A group of tourists stuck in the past. Seems that their return is prevented by custom control, one of them tried to smuggle a dinosaur across the time border. Some people are really weird!)

[Steven Hunley]

This was really cute, but may be a request made in vain. When you read something written, whatever it might be, the person writing tends to have a singular vision, a unique purpose in mind, a one-of-a-kind perspective or view. This begins to grate on his writing partner. Eventually you have a falling out. Of course I can be wrong, in fact I often am. So considering that fact, and taking it into account, I wish you best of luck. You'll need it. But let's hope not. Stranger things happen.

[free]

:lol:
Good remark! I have even forgotten about my «signature». I'd put it there long time ago, and stopped being aware of it a short time after. But you've noticed it and connected with the story. Who knows, maybe the signature has written it, getting finally bored waiting for someone to apply. :lol:
Thank you for reading the story and drawing my attention to its possible point.

[Dinkleberry2010]

Time-travel has a lot of potential to it. You could develop this into a story.

[free]

Thanks, Jermac. Time-travel is my obsession, I am sure I'll find the way to develop it properly.

[Dinkleberry2010]

The best book I have ever read about time travel is Michael Moorcock's Behold The Man. It's set in the future where time travel has been developed and people can go back in time. The main character decides to go back in time to literally find Jesus. I won't say anything else about it, except that what the character finds is totally unexpected.

[free]

I know this book, but I haven't read it. I must do it now. I can never get enough of such novels.:lol:

[Lyn05]

Hi free, this is really interesting and the ending got me laughing-smuggling a dinosaur!:)

[ozhansean]

Interesting! Petit, but nice. As you mentioned time travel is a perfect notion to write about. It is one of those flexible settings that would make for a writers dream-canvas. Very much like Jermac's circus setting, too good. Keep writing.

[Dinkleberry2010]

I read a short story about time travel (I cannot remember the author's name or the title of the story) that is the best short story about time traveling I've read, and it concerns dinosaurs. In the story, time travel into the past has been developed and is an established thing. People--for a fee of course--can go back to the age of the dinosaurs and literaly go big-game hunting with the dinosaurs. The only rule is that the time travelers must do nothing to disturb anything other than shoot certain dinosaurs. Well, you guessed it, someone does something that makes a disturbance. The result I will not state, but it is, like Behold The Man, totally unexpected.

[free]

Thanks for your comments. You are very kind, indeed.

[1n50mn14]

Interesting concept.
Needs fleshing out, though.

[free]

Thanks, BeccaT. You are absolutely right. It was written just as a compendium, an idea for something larger.