50wordstories.ca » past http://50wordstories.ca/blog "Brevity is the soul of wit" -- Shakespeare Fri, 03 May 2013 19:31:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 This is Your Life http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=95 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=95#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:00:11 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=95 He was going to die.

It was all happening very suddenly, but there was this infinitesimally short instant of calm, where he got the chance to reflect on the past, and watch a rerun of his entire life.

He didn’t expect it to fit within a fifty word story, though.

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An eagerly awaited time machine never arrives.

He’d sent his off exactly two hours into the future.

Six hours later, waiting for it to return, doubt creeped into his mind.

Did he send the time machine forward in time, or did he send it backward?

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