A cleaner at the airport asked what I’d do if I had a time machine.
—-Neil Clark, from Out of Hand
Charles Umlauf
Spirit of Flight
Love Field
Dallas, Texas
I found this from a link from yesterday’s story. It’s very short – spare and efficient.
Read it here:
Out of Hand by Neil Clark
from Spelk
When I was a little kid I saw a Twilight Zone episode – A Kind of a Stopwatch. This guy is given a magical stopwatch – when the watch stops, time stops. When he stops the watch, he stops the world (except him). This is a Twilight Zone – so things don’t end well. While time is stopped, he robs a bank and accidentally breaks the watch. He is trapped.
A famous episode and rightfully so. Complete fiction – of course. But it scared the crap out of me. I was petrified of the idea of somebody else stopping time and never starting it. I would compulsively wave my hand in front of my face to convince myself that time was still moving.
Unfortunately, it never stopped.
Bill Chance 