Should have known better.

I tried to transport into a parallel universe.

My evil twin, with a great looking goatee, tried doing the same thing, at the same time.

Unfortunately, both of us were caught in a temporal-causation loop.

And all people wearing red shirts on the planet's surface died.

Astrid's yellow eyes darkened in frustration as she collapsed at the base of the lightning throne.The jagged edges and the mild electric current flowing through the stairs she'd had to climb had proved a challenge.

She pulled herself up to sit onto it, feeling its current of power and enabling.

Robot -//w4p99 stood, atop the hill. The city spread below.

He recalls a time, when with his partner, Robot -//w4p98.

And he ached!

He recalls a quote.

"He drank away her tears.

Now he is wasting away with longing,

He realises those tears must have been poisioned."

And he cried.

Fear. That is what the government uses to control people. It's not exactly the fear of execution, but fear of experiencing your worst nightmares. People call it the Cryoc. If you break the Rules, you're locked in the Cryoc and face your phobias forever. I was trapped there. I escaped.

The shining sentience said, "You've been chosen." Then it vanished. I felt special, but chosen for what? A liaison to another world? When the news broadcast that everyone had seen a similar visitor and were also called chosen, I was just like everyone else. Now I want to be unchosen.

She was an ordinary girl.

With a normal life and normal friends.

She wasn't exceptionally smart, or athletic.

Not artistic or talented.

She was average height.

And if we're being honest, rather plain looking.

Yes, she was the definition of normal.

Well, except for the wire plugged into her back.

"Well, what laws did he break?" the lawyer snapped, sick of the cloak and dagger.

"He pretty much shattered every law in physics, and quite a few legal ones," Affi said.

"Meaning?" the lawyer sighed.

"If he come back, he'll simultaneously be awarded the Nobel prize and a life sentence."

‘‘Welcome to the Spacetime Academy. Here you’ll learn how to be a time travel space explorer,’’ spoke the Director of programs and transitions.

The students cheered and clapped at the end of the Director’s opening remark.

While the students celebrated, the Director hoped for a great year. Another new group.

50 Words

of Sci/Fi

Lie

of Distant Moons

&

the Shadows They Cast

of Humanity

&

Legends of the Lost Past

Savior From the Heaven

Save us We Ask

Divinities Children

Spoiled Brats

We Who Woke In a Garden of Eden

Turned to Ash

Last Chance

Countless Planets

the Expanse