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RE: I once had a great idea for a time travel novel, but I will probably never write it.

in #fiction8 years ago

"So, Bob, I was going to attend your son's first birthday party, but my paradox-avoidance ring went off. Apparently, your son had a dog that dug up a sapling. If I go to your son's party, you don't end up buying that exact dog for him, that sapling would end up growing into a tree that falls on my grandmother's house, somehow preventing my birth. Sorry about that, bud."

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Perhaps it could work quietly in the background. The act of avoidance could be felt like an inconvenient detour. "Damn red light."