Please Note: 100% fiction!
I…cannot…believe…it. It has frozen over. Overnight.
Part of me wants to throw everything against the wall, another part wants to scream but both are held back by the part of me who would never do such a thing in public.
Ugh, I hate this time period. No heat, no hot water, not even a decent sanitary bathroom, remind me why I’m here again?
Oh right, the time machine crash-landed due to a faulty part. Well, unfortunately, that faulty part wouldn’t be invented for another couple hundreds of YEARS!
Sighing, I carried the heavy, icy tub to the fire. Melt away.
(100 words)


Disastrous! Good take Yinglan
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Thank you.
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I enjoy the note that this is fiction, but it would be rotten if it were true.
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That little fine print problem with time machines, eh? …
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😄😄😄
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One should always have a rescue back up plan
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I agree.
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Oh, no! Good story but glad it is fiction. 😊
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Thank you.
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I’m getting the feeling it’s cold just about everywhere!
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I felt it too when I saw the picture.
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Oh, what a thought. Imagine. Ha ha nice use of 100 words.
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Thank you.
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Good story 🙌
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Thank you.
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Oh my, not the thing you want to happen. Nice to visit but wouldn’t want to live there.
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I agree.
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All such endeavors find success in good logistics. Fun story.
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Thank you.
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uh-oh, heeding nature’s call can be problematic during freezing temperatures. 🙂
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Oh my, you’re right. 🥶
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when you lack the part and it hasn’t been invented yet, that’s a great time to start inventing stuff yourself.
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Yes, it absolutely is a great time to start inventing.
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I love this, I am somewhat immersed in time-travelling stuff,. Im editing my own trilogy about time travel, and I’m reading Book 1 of Outlander. It makes me wonder what if it happened…slipping through a wormhole and finding the world was 200 years earlier than before… fascinating stuff!
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How fun that you have a trilogy about time travel. I’m a fan of time-travel fiction, it’s just about the only sub-genre in the sci-fi genre that I like.
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Oh really? This story is set in NZ as I was living there at the time. The residents stumble across a portal for time travel. It’s a lot of fun, the characters are typically down to earth Kiwis. It’s a job rewriting the books from 3 books to 8 or 9 shorter stories but a great exercise looking over work that’s 10 years old! I’m hoping to have book 1 out by March/April. The heatwave we keep getting are not conducive to writing but I’m working through steadily. There is light at the end of the tunnel, I’m over half way now 🙂
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I’ve done it with some of my older work. Though it is tiring work, I find it I enjoy rewriting and re-reading more enjoyable than when I was writing the actual story because at least most of it has been written. Good luck with rewriting your work. 🙂
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💯 agreed. It’s tiring but definitely enjoyable looking vack on my writing, and my brother’s. As you say it has already been written, it’s just getting a freshen up. My late brother’s writing style was poles apart from mine so I’m working toward a fresher cleaner read,to bring it from 2014 to 2024 🙂
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Oh wow! 😮
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We wrote the first book from opposite sides of the Tasman Sea. He was in NSW and I was in Sth Canterbury, NZ. We emailed each other with ideas, chapters and he merged them all together. It was crazy, so much fun. Sadly he passed a yr and a half ago but he gave me his blessing to polish our story. ❤️🙂✍️
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I’m sorry for your loss.
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Thank you. I feel he’s sitting next to me reading it as I edit it. We did a good job, just a few changes being made 🙂
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Your story made me smile and that’s a good thing! This was a fun story and I’ve made a mental note to carry back-up parts on my next journey back.
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Thank you, I’m glad this story made you smile. 🙂
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