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Write about a character putting something into a time capsule.

Posted in Science Fiction on Oct 26, 2022

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Time in a box

Submitted to Contest #62

TIME, what is it? Too many explanations yet; it still a mystery waiting in a queue to be unveiled by someone. About the time, we all have this consensus that time is relative. According to Einstein,  That space and time are the part of a four-dimensional structure where everything that has happened has its coordinates in spacetime. That makes Past, present and, future connected and makes time, a road, or a string, by following which a person can experience one of the aspects of life. What if we can stop it? What if we can exist in t...

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Watch Out Worlds!!

Submitted to Contest #62

The flyer had covered the whole town with the promise of leaving something for the future. Norma could hardly wait for the time capsule to be uncovered, so she could put in whatever she was going to give to the future people. Something to make them wondered what it was and what it was used for was her mission. She could put the blender and say that it was the music from the time or even put a picture of her dog with the statement that is what my husband looked like.  She knew that she wasn’t going to put the picture ...

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Hope.

Submitted to Contest #62

When you are one of the only teenagers around the area who is sitting in studiously bent over books at the weekend, your friends tend to think there is something amiss. "But I Anister Benson sixteen years old am definitely needing to be so engrossed in my books as college is looming and I have a crazy amount of work to be doing." "I live in London whitechapel and have since I was born. I love it here I have loads of friends and I like my school, in fact it is my favourite place." Anister was working so hard as she had promised her father t...

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Future Green Goliath

Submitted to Contest #62

As a kid, from a young age, I always was a big comic book fan. I was more into Marvel Comics than DC Comics. Though, DC has some great characters. Superman being on the top of my list. Growing up as a kid in the 80’s, it was a joy. For a fact, Saturday mornings, was a great day to be a child. Several major networks showing cartoons based on Marvel and DC characters. I read a few comics (I should say watching the visuals more often) but I got to know the superheroes and the supervillains by watching them on the little screen on the Saturday...

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The Time Theif

Submitted to Contest #62

I am walking through a forest, holding a leather capsule full of random notes and toys, and other things I want someone to find. I'm looking around, scanning my surroundings, looking for someone. She spots me before I spot her. "Hello, Isadora, my gorgeous girlfriend." She comes up behind me, tickling me. I giggle. "Hello, Averly." Averly Downham. That’s my wonderful girlfriend. She gives me a kiss. "Let's bury that time capsule. I have the things I want to put in." She holds out a little plastic baggie. "That's all?" "That's all." S...

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Escape With Time

Submitted to Contest #62

Escape With Time Suzanne Marsh Christmas Day 1932 Time seemed to stand still for Clyde Barrow, as he stood staring out the window of the Blue Bonnet Court, in Temple, Texas. They had ditched their other car after the Buckholtz Bank robbery. Clyde needed a new set of wheels. It was Christmas Day, 1932, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker had just robbed another bank, no one was killed in that particular robbery. Clyde, had seen Bonnie taking picture after picture with her Brownie Camera, that in and of itself was not anything to worry about; it ...

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Capsule time

Submitted to Contest #62

- danger! Danger! ? There is no step! No step! - The reducible metal frame robot fired a concentric red alert to its central frame.  - what happen? - asked the commander, a very modern equipment, with extragalactic and third-dimensional motion sensors  Explosive field in front of us! - making a knot in the air with the guy wires coming out of the chassis of the ship towards the magnetic center of the outer planetary curve - so fast that no other team noticed the event.  - Commander, - observ...

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A Bit of a Traveller

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A Bit of a Traveller The year was 1969, and the graduating class had decided to put objects into a time capsule, which was buried on in the far corner of the property owned by the high school. It was where some of the students went to go to smoke. There was a large bush that they could hide behind, and not get caught. The plan was to dig the time capsule up and revisit it every ten years, to give it a look, maybe laugh. However, 10, then 20, 30 and even 40 years later, there had been no such activity, even though about hal...

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Keepsake

Submitted to Contest #62

KeepsakeHe took from his heart his childish dreams: dreams of being an astronaut, a fire fighter, a superhero (and, occasionally, when in a bad mood, a super villain), a soldier, a knight, an adventurer. He placed them in the small box with the rusty hinge and the reliable latch (that’s why a young boy would place his heat’s dreams in an old box with rusty hinges after all).His heart emptied of all these childish whims, childhood hopes and ambitions. And the box, filled with these childhood dreams, appeared slightly different. Newer. A buzz ...

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The Well.

Submitted to Contest #62

“Why are you burying it so deep?” “We want someone to find it in the next fifty years or so, don’t we?” “This empty well will eventually be dug up to build a new estate, so don’t worry, it will be found!” “New estate!” “We are four hundred kilometres from the nearest city!” “And that city has expanded over four-hundred kilometres in the last fifty years, so it will be found!” Lisa and Martin had been friends for twenty years, but Lisa wasn’t happy about where he had decided to bury the time capsule. A month earlier, Lisa was busy corre...

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The Future in Flames

Submitted to Contest #62

“The word ‘future’ is a strange one. We rely on it so much yet have no idea what our world holds in store for us. Now, we have faced an obstacle that may seem impossible to get past. But, we will rise up to the challenge. You have already heard of the prophecy. While my administration and I  have no way of confirming or denying this threat as of yet, we will do all we can to prepare ourselves for any events, good or bad. However, we can also give the generations to come the supplies they need to survive and thrive in the future. And tha...

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Grandmother's funeral

Submitted to Contest #62

"Alright class! Today's homework is to gather things for your time capsule!" The teacher announced as the students began to file out of the classroom. Once every student was out of the classroom- or so she thought, she swiftly turned on her heel and began to work. Before she could however, she spotted a child deep asleep on his desk. It was Jerry. The boy was a rather lonely and isolated student of hers, and his eyes always seemed to stare out into the distance, never really making eye contact. The woman sighed, Jerry was a subject of growin...

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Madam Victoria Smith a Flight Attendant kept some of her precious items in a time capsule.

Submitted to Contest #62

My story is entitled Madam Victoria Smith a Flight Attendant kept some of her precious items in a time capsule.A time capsule is created during celebrations such as world fairs, a cornerstone laying for a building.Also among some of the items she kept in the time capsule includes the newspaper, spoon, pictures, a birth announcement, birthday party invitation and recorded baby coos and giggles. A stainless steel container is the perfect choice for a time capsule. Also most people put things inside a time capsule and then after bury it up.The ...

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Surprised

Submitted to Contest #62

His personal pod glided silently out of the cerulean blue sky, touching down on the open balcony 40 floors up. The doors to the apartment and the pod opened silently and simultaneously. He crossed the room, his sinuous body clad in a tight silver suit which enhanced his enviable physical structure. He bent to pick up a shiny metal disc from the low table and stepped into his transport. In moments they were rising high into the atmosphere, heading towards the mountains far to the south of the country. He leaned back and shut his eyes, probab...

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The Tin Box Grave

Submitted to Contest #62

The snow covered everything in our tiny town. My friend and I sat huddled together in the homemade tree house. The oak planks were the only thing that held us from falling. Our big winter coats rubbed on each other. We had the tin box lying in the middle of us. No one wanted to touch it. No one wanted to see it. It had too many memories attached to it.  … “Come on Jimmy! Don't be a baby! Lets go!” My lungs shoved out. I was trying to keep my head above the murky water.  “Jimmy?!...LETS GO!” Billy shouted beside me. His voice was m...

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