Time travel
Sunday, 9 March 2014
Here are some one sentence time-travel stories that i wrote. I would love to have them perfected before i publish them in a (very small) booklet, so if anybody has any ideas to make them better, please let me know.
1.
Halfway his lecture, in which he proved that time-travel was violating the laws of physics, professor Dennett was given an handwritten note by a stranger with the rest of his lecture.
2.
Hardly a millisecond after McKenna had finally finished his time-travel machine, he was crushed, because his lab was suddenly filled with time-travellers from the future who came to congratulate him with his invention.
3.
Andrew Milton realised that there must be something wrong with his time-travel machine when he pushed the startbutton for the seventh time and could do nothing to stop doing it.
4.
Andreas Glazer’s life-long work of proving that time-travel was impossible was destroyed when he was shot by a young man who, according to witness accounts, claimed to be his grandson before he vanished without a trace.
5.
Suspicion began to arise when a third passage popped up in Van Gogh’s diary’s, mentioning strange men wanting to buy his paintings for large sums of money.
6.
It was Julie L. Moore who first noticed that a significant amount of of grandfathers was killed without ever finding a single trace of the murderer.
7.
The exact same moment that Liston Verdi shot his grandfather he was killed by a zap-gun in the hands of his grandson.
8.
In jail for murdering his grandfather and illegal use of a time-travel machine, Donald Anath’s mother surprised him with the news that his father was not his real father.
9.
After the last dinosaur was killed, a galactic commission in 3385 finally ordered to forbid time-travel for hunting purposes and to hide all trace of it until 2114.
10.
The end of time was probably caused by a massive amount of visitors from all times and places who hoped to get a glimpse of the event.
11.
Professor Brightwood’s lecture on the impossibility of time-travel came to a sudden end when he noticed at least three versions of himself smiling at him in the audience.
Herman Roozen
2014-03-10 09:03:10
I like number 9.