Good morning! I was so busy this week that I forgot about signing up early for Weekend Writing Warriors, so I didn’t nab a great spot near the top of the linky list, but I’m still hangin’ in there. So I’ve got eight more sentences from ‘Time Bubble Blues.’ Jack’s still struggling with a computer that he hopes holds the key to find a way out of this TimeBubble room.
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In the hopes of calming down, he looked at the ‘frequently asked questions’ file:
“Just how does my panic button work?”
“There are many panic buttons in your TimeBubble room. All of them send a signal to the same Master Panic Button circuit. The job of the Master Panic Button circuit is to make sure that the TimeBubble field around your room is collapsed safely. Once the bubble field comes down, the computer in charge of your TimeBubble will unseal your room and let you out.”
“What would happen if my Panic Button malfunctions?”
“You don’t need to worry about that: All our Panic Buttons are designed to be so redundant and fool-proof that we don’t expect a failure for ten thousand years.”
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Wow, that’s some guarantee! loving these snippets!
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Uh oh, the sheer overconfidence of the FAQ about the panic button makes me feel sure it WILL malfunction. Love this story, great excerpt!
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Just what I was thinking. Everytime something is guaranteed not to fail, it does. Great 8.
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Man Chris you either nuts or ambitious – the a-z challenge, camp and this too. I just don’t have that kind of energy
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Once in ten thousand years? and they have how many people for how many years? Failure guaranteed!
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Don’t worry about that. lol Is he Mr. 1 in 10,000 years?
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Uh oh! I see the first failure in 10,000 years looming on the horizon. Excellent excerpt! 🙂
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Talk about a guarantee.
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Guarantee? Guarantee something will most likely go wrong! Nice 8 🙂
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1 in 10,000 doesn’t mean much if you’re that 1. Great snippet!
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