Round 44, Hour 28

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

 Greetings from the Present. I come bearing this exact moment of time. Go forth and use it wisely before it gets away. Go on. Shoo! Write!

Comments

[xandromedovna.livejournal.com]

Trying to find a prison for my character and feeling like the more research I do the more the internet is watching me.

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Wave at the nice surveillance people! Prison theory related to the concept of the panopticon never seemed more relevant. I hope you find the right lockup soon!

[eve11]

I have two stories I want to write, flash fictions both, likely. But it is getting late and I should go to bed.

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Rest up and emerge to write flash fiction all fresh and shiny in the morning!

[bookblather.livejournal.com]

I have written 434 words!

Now talk some more, characters.

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Excellent! Let's hope the characters stay chatty.

[lolmac]

So far you've come from the past, the present, and the future -- what's next? An alternate time line? The Space-Time Vortex? Timelessness?

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

I guess we'll have to wait to find out. Or pop through a portal to 21 minutes from now, if you have the technology.

[lolmac]

Damn! I forgot to pick up a time machine. Have you got a spare?

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

There's actually only one time machine. If I set the co-ordinates right, it should be in your living room nowish?

[lolmac]

*sprints out*

Nope. Are you sure you set it for the right century? If not, well . . . this was all swamp up until a few decades ago . . .

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

*winces*

Uh.

Well that'll be hard to explain to the Time Committee.

[lolmac]

Gah. Did you set it for auto-return?

If so, well . . . sorry about the mud. And better check carefully for alligators.

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Oh, well. I mean it was already stocked with a crocodile pool in the main navigation pod. I bet they'll take care of the 'gators.

Perhaps you did not want the time machine after all?

[jlvsclrk.livejournal.com]

Newbie here! Desperately trying to get my characters on the road but they just want to stand around talking to each other.

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Ooh. Get a shove on, characters! You have business to be doing.

Welcome to the community :)

[lolmac]

Welcome indeed! Would you like a few alligators to motivate your characters into some kind of activity?

[lolmac]

Are you implying that the time machine, if it senses itself unwanted, will wantonly deviate from its designated course?

Admittedly, I did just finally get a few words squeezed out, so this isn't really the best time to be time-hopping. It's more likely to be time for a drink.

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Well, I will now have been implying that in the past when I posted.

Thanks, time travel paradoxes.

But what I would have been implying might have been that you might not have wanted to wrangle the crocodiles to use the controls of the Time Machine. I'm not sure whose idea the crocodiles were anyway. They seem sort of impractical.

Also, good job on the word squeezing!

[lolmac]

We're going to have to blame the crocodiles on the scriptwriter, who was probably drinking.