I really enjoyed reading this story and writing my couple of small parts. I need to go back and read the whole thing. I can’t wait for them to add that type of feature to the site (you know, make it easy to read an entire story).
Note to SJHundak/S.J.Willing – I hope you don’t mind that I sequeled “Time Keeps on Slippin’ ” too. I liked your piece, but I had something else in mind.
Susan – thank you. This story is actually my favorite one I have written on this site. I hope to continue it at some point. Obviously, it was influenced by Douglas Adams, but hopefully it is still different enough.
Susan – it was in one of the chapters describing the time machine, which I said was a metal halo with blinking lights. It was just mentioned in passing, though, so I could see how you missed it.
Author’s Note: This was posted mistakenly a couple days ago as a standalone story. I am posting it now in its’ intentended place, as a sequel to “A Call to Himself becomes A Bogus Journey”. Sorry to those who read it twice.
This whole ficlet is great, particularly “The dragon began eyeing my body. “Would you like me to rid you of this awful growth?”, she asked the bunny slippers.
Susan those are good questions. I guess I was playing off the previous installment when he dropped the notebook stunned and placed a bid. He figured since he was bidding on a time machine, he was communicating with a future self. Or maybe I just thought it was funny :)
Note: This was inspired by a search I did on Ficlets yesterday for the tag “Time Travel”. The sponsored links did indeed contain a link to “Time Travel Machines” on eBay. I thought it would make an interesting story.
Nathaniel – I will change the name. I’m not really into Half-Life, just picked a name. I will use a name generator and see what that comes up with. I generally don’t spend much time on character names.
Robotech_Master – No I didn’t know that off the top of my head. I meant 35% of the ship’s overall normal oxygen level in the system (100% would be normal conditions), though this would be unclear from the ficlet.
I’m just a guy living in a cubicle who occasionally peeks his head out to write a story. My goal is to someday write a novel and have people read it. It doesn’t even have to be the Great American Novel. I will settle for the ordinary, everyday American Novel.
I try to rate and/or comment each Ficlet I read and wouldn’t mind the same for my Ficlets. As you can tell from my stories, I could use the feedback.
If you read any of my Ficlets and would like to see a sequel, go ahead and send me a “note”. There is nothing that motivates me more than the knowledge someone wants to read what I write.
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