On the Bus
- by William Grewe-Mullins
- Flash Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “On the Bus” by William Grewe-Mullins, in Black is the New Black, 28 June 2010 [Mel Phistopheles’s blog accessed at http://blacknewblack.blogspot.com/2010/06/short-short-story.html on 4 August 2021.].
A man on a bus gives advice to his younger self.
—Michael Main
You’re going to need a lot of dog food.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: presumed time period
- Timeline Models
- Leaky Timelines: 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.”
- Time Barrier: “And you can't go back to before Homo sapiens evolved.”
- 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 [. . .]”
- Kill Hitler: “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 [. . .]”
- Self-Visitation
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Tourist Paradox: “[. . .] 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
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- “On the Bus” by William Grewe-Mullins, in Black is the New Black, 28 June 2010 [Mel Phistopheles’s blog accessed at http://blacknewblack.blogspot.com/2010/06/short-short-story.html on 4 August 2021.].