Fiction 101 Series
Arrow of Time
(Or The Results of Present-Indefinite When Attempting
to Cheat Entropy)
Today, I sit behind the controls of my time machine. Not
to travel to the past and correct a mistake, but to the future. Safely cloaked,
I see the thousands of autonomous people oblivious to the horrors of the news
flashing on the giant TSX Broadway screen of Times Square.
A decade past. Eventually five. Inside the ship, only one
day. My goal, to reach the future Gene Roddenberry envisioned. However, when I
disengage, I return to just one day after I had left.
And the only thing I gain, my present is redefined by the
end of today. Or was.
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