HW: 100 word SF: This Very Spot

brian halligan brianh at PULLEYN.COM
Fri Jun 12 10:00:39 EDT 1998


This would make a great HW song.  Anybody want to write some lyrics?

Brian

>> From: schnitzi at east.isx.com
>> Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
>> Subject: 100 word SF: This Very Spot
>> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 18:15:30 GMT
>>
>> The equations added up.
>>
>> Though time travel was never expressly forbidden by the laws of
>> physics, no one had yet figured out a way -- until Lars came along.
>>
>> "I shall see you in ten years, at this very spot."  Brazenly, he
>> added:  "Have my Nobel Prize waiting for me."
>>
>> He stepped into the machine and shunted.
>>
>> Suddenly his skin was alive with fire.  Before they vaporized, his
>> eyes caught a glimpse of a billion stars.
>>
>> Lars thought, "Well, I suppose the Earth *was* in this very spot,
>> ten years ago."  And his blood boiled away into the vacuum of space.
>>
>>
>> --Mark



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