All In A Night’s Work by Jermaine Kudiabor

Flash Fiction Ghana

Innocence breathed deeply, then tugged his black jacket closer around his shoulders. It was a chilly night. There was a full moon, and it provided the only light along the tarred road. The street-lights had long been destroyed by the wayside robbers who prowled this route, and had not been replaced by whoever was supposed to be in charge. Once in a while a taxi would roar by, its headlights making it look like some amber-eyed monster. The bush on one side of the road was filled with the music of crickets, and the occasional sound of some creepy-crawly moving within the undergrowth. This was the scene for a perfect horror movie. Or a mugging.

“Hey you”, a voice said. “You know the directions to New Ejisu?”

Innocence looked towards the bush and had his view almost fully obstructed by a massive chest in a black and white stripped muscle…

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Time Machine

Bit of fun reading [I hope]. Enjoy……….

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Most of you have either read a science fiction novel or watched a sci-fi movie or at the very least watched The Big Bang Theory[if you don’t watch BBT you should. Life is too short not to].Now you have probably come across the feat of time travel in one of those numerous books or movies or series. The ability to go, unrestricted, backwards or forwards in time. It is actually one of the most coveted powers ever.

Now if you are familiar with this then you have probably met the problem of interfering with the past. Because the past is set and has already happened, so if you disturb it you could change the future with drastic consequences. Let me clarify. Let us say you build a time machine and travel back into time. Now anything you do there is dangerous. Say you kill a mosquito that is buzzing round your head, intent on drinking your blood. Now that mosquito was probably going to be eaten by a certain reptile which would probably die leading to the extinction of its species leading to……………………[insert whole list of utterly random events]……………leading to mankind not discovering electricity meaning no “dumsor” from ECG etc etc.

Or maybe your favorite uncle died in a car crash. So you go into the past and save his life by preventing him from going out that day. But by him not going out the driver hits someone else who happens to be Obama’s mother meaning Obama is never born meaning George Bush turn the USA into a dictatorship meaning WW4 [world war four] meaning we never hear the phrase yes we can and Hitler’s ghost comes back to haunt all of us meaning the world [America] actually ends in 2012 and they all come to Africa [where aliens never invade] etc etc.

You probably get the gist of the matter. Now my problem is no one actually knows the future. If that is the case how are we supposed to ensure that the future isn’t disturbed. Personally I think the future is actually an infinite number of probabilities based on the differences of events happening. So if you do go to the past how do you know if it actually isn’t your job to kill that mosquito?? After all it could be that if you do kill it a certain reptile will starve to death leading to its extinction leading to………………[once again a list of utterly random events]……………………………………leading to mankind not discovering electricity meaning no “dumsor’ meaning “asuuoorrr kaaaneee kerosene” will be a prosperous business…….etc etc.

I guess in the end “with great power comes great responsibility” [Ben Parker, uncle to Peter Parker, Spider Man. For you non-Marvel people]

So if you do build a time machine, or get new powers that allow you to traverse the borders of space and time, I pray thee do as you may. And kill that mosquito if it buzzes too close to your ear for comfort.

Honestly though this has probably been a slight waste of time. Thank you if you read all of this. The love must be real