On the Bus

by William Grewe-Mullins

• Release: 28 June 2010
• Format: Flash Fiction
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

You’re going to need a lot of dog food.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 2000 to 2099: presumed time period

Timeline Models

• Narrative Time: Old me’s hand returns as soon as he tells young me to have it looked into.
• Resilient Timeline: “[. . .] history always bends back towards the timeline of the original traveler's reality.”
• [ex]tag-3712 | Time Barrier[/ex]: “And you can't go back to before Homo sapiens evolved.”

Time Travel Methods

• Unexplained Time Travel Methods

Themes

• Get Rich Quick through Time Travel: “I could give you the lottery number that I have for next week's lottery [. . .]”
• [ex]tag-3211 | Kill Hitler[/ex]: “The one called ’Stop Trying To Kill Hitler, It Doesn't Work’ is a good one.”
• Save JFK!: “Oswald is the shooter in all the scenarios we've explored [. . .]”
• [ex]tag-3316 | Self-Visitation[/ex]
• [ex]tag-4010 | Tourist Paradox[/ex]: “[. . .] each time they go back to, say, JFK's
  assassination, where everybody goes, they don't see the other travelers there [. . .]”
• Wisdom or Consolation to Your Younger Self

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From an unspecified place and time, presumed to be in the 21st century ⋙ to somewhere near a busline, at least 25 years earlier. Round trip. Note: Old me travels to the young me.