How Not to Time Travel

by Melody Rose

Release: 1 March 2021
Format: Flash Fiction
Genre: Mainstream
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Writing in second person, you tell what it’s like to take short time travel jumps, or perhaps just what it’s like to be you.

— Michael Main

Each jump, as you call them, is accompanied by a specific sensation—a deep cringe that starts inside you and expands outward until it feels like the entire universe is cringing.

DEBUT

“How Not to Time Travel,” Daily Science Fiction, 1 March 2021 [webzine].

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Travel Methods

Emotional Outcries through Time: Perhaps each jump (as you call them) is a sign that your self-conscious self is replaying an awkward moment in your head. I know that feeling.

Themes

Groupings

Daily Science Fiction (periodical)

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From various times and places at an unknown time ⋙ to a few seconds earlier at an unknown time. Multiple trips. Note: but observation only.