I Never Heard Back From the Future

This is a true story. Kind of.

I’ve been working on a time machine for the last thirty years.

I’m about to give up on it, because I haven’t come back from the future to help me finish it. I figure that means I never succeeded.

That’s usually how time loops are supposed to work.

I have just finished thinking this when there’s a flash of light behind me.

I turn around and see… me.

Same face…