Reset
For the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge this year, I’m posting a 100 word piece of flash fiction every day. It might be a self-contained story, or a scene–whatever, it’ll be fiction, and it’ll be over in a flash! Today’s story is…
Reset
“This, my lord, is our latest experiment.”
The creature pointed a talon at a screen. It showed a man pressing a large button, disappearing, then reappearing, only to press the button again and disappear.
“Interesting, Wormwood. Explain.”
“Well, your magnificence, the subject is given a ‘Reset’ button, so he can go back and undo his mistakes.”
“Yes?”
“Of course, it’s a deception. You can’t undo time. He simply goes back, makes the same mistakes, hits the button, and is held in a perpetual loop for all eternity.”
“A self-made hell?”
“Precisely,” Wormwood grinned. “Created out of his own regret.”
“Excellent!”
Check back tomorrow for S…
Oh wow, that’s just evil! That would be hell.
It certainly would. And there are people right now who live it. Ooo–is this a flash fiction story with a message? 🙂
Ah, Wormwood. And that certainly would be hell. The only delight in considering time travel is the potential to Do Over.
You spotted the reference. Well done, Stephanie! 🙂 While the temptation to Do Over would be great, the potential repercussions would scare me. Good things that have happened might change for the worse if I change something I think is bad for something I think is better. If I were to have the opportunity to go back in time, I think it would be to observe and jog my memory. It might be painful reliving certain things and not changing them, but perhaps looking from a third-person perspective, and with the distance of years, I might see things differently, and with a broader and clearer view.
Oh, gosh. that sounds terrible. I would love to time-travel, but it would be to a time when I haven’t been born.
It does sound terrible, and certainly not a good reason for time traveling, I think.
That is evil. I like it.
~Patricia Lynne~
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Patricia Lynne, YA Author
LOL–thanks, Patricia… I think! 🙂
Scary and awful. Yikes.
I’ll take that as a good thing, since that’s what I was aiming for… 🙂 Besides, don’t you like horror? Thanks, Kim! 😀