FF – Imagination
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. Today’s photo was contributed by FF regular Sandra Crook.
You can read this week’s other stories by clicking on the blue froggy.
Copyright Sandra Crook
“Check this out! It’s really a time machine.”
“No way!”
“Yes way! See the hourglasses? What time is it now?”
“Um… big hand’s on the… um… twenty-five past three.”
“I’m going to spin the central bit, round and round and…”
“Oy! You kids! What’re you doing to ‘The Sands of Time’? Clear off!”
“Run!”
“Phew, that was close. Did it work?”
“What time is it now?”
“Um… twenty-six past three. Wow, we’ve travelled forward a whole minute!”
“Told ya! Pretty cool, huh?”
“Yeah! What shall we do now?”
“See that spiky thing over there? It’s really a spaceship.”
“No way!”
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draliman on life 
Imagination a wonderful thing.
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It is!
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LOL! The imagination of children is something to behold!
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To be a child again… adults can imagine but not so easily act.
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So true! 🙂
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A very vivid and naive imagination.
Cute 😊
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Kids and their imaginations 🙂
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Cute. It reminds me of my little gang when we were kids. Forts made of cardboard boxes and all.
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Happy days 🙂
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Really well done. Where did the spaceship take them?
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To a galaxy far far away (TM) 🙂
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That could be down the street in the right six year olds mind! The true glory of youth seeing the world through clear open minds and eyes.
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It would be right down my street even today!
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Streets are funny things says Mark from Marks Rd.
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I would like one of them in my garden. Enjoyed your tale, if only it was that easy to tell the time when working in the garden with no watch on.
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I’m quite taken with that sculpture too!
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Love it! When I was a kid, we had the internal shell of a submarine to play in 😉
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Wow, that sounds like fun!
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You can never have too much imagination, Ali. Nice one!
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Indeed you can’t 🙂
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Imagination is much more fun than reality. A delight.
‘The Homecoming’ for FFfAW!
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Yep, always!
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Everyone in the comments seems to be seeing imagination. I see a kid playing a prank on his gullible friend. I’m not sure what that says about me. haha
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(In German accent) hmm, tell me about your childhood, Mr Ickes…
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Well it all started when I was six…
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Get off my lawn you kids! Bwa ha ha! 😀
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What kid hasn’t heard shouted at them that at least once 🙂
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LOL! That phrase always makes me laugh but personally I am the antithesis of curmudgeon. ❤ ❤ ❤
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🙂
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Yes, it is 26 minutes past three…. but they failed to realize it’s now the 86th Century!
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And that spiky thing really is a spaceship!
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Writers never grow out of imagining things like this 🙂
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It’s such fun!
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I have the fear something’s going to be broken sooner or later. What an imagination. Well done, Ali. 😀 — Suzanne
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Yes, I’m not sure the central portion of that sculpture is designed to be spun around and around… 🙂
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Loved this. You really captured the essence of youth…
Joy oh joy… what we just did…!
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Everything was an adventure, every new object an exciting artefact 🙂
I’m glad you liked it!
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Dear Ali,
Kids can make an adventure out of anything, can’t they? Great dialogue.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
I (just about) remember those days! Thanks 🙂
Ali
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Yes way! Like totally, yes way!
No way! 🙂
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Yes way, Mer, yes way!
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lol
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Hilarious! The kids read to much Harry Potter, I think. Fun story, and I would have liked to explore that spaceship too.
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The spaceship sounds like it would be fun. We can only hope that the kids are actually reading real books 🙂
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My son is reading the “Skulduggery Pleasant” books. Real tomes made of paper with cover and everything. Hooray! ❤
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Funny! Great story.
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Thanks 🙂
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What fun!
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A good time was had by all 🙂
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this story made me remember the good old days. well done. 🙂
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Thanks, me too!
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MOL.. Great story, Draliman 😀 Pawkisses for a Happy Weekend 🙂 ❤
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Thanks! And you 🙂
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Cool story. The innocent see miracles in everything around them. Nicely done dialogue format.
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Ah, to be young again! I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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Great dialogue! I can see my grand boys saying something like that!
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Thanks! I reckon I said stuff like that too “back in the day” 🙂
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So much fun! Today’s kids are so plugged into their games, they’ve lost some of that ability to pretend – sorry.. I should say many of today’s kids…
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Yeah, these kids are having some “olde worlde” fun 🙂
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I like the “olde worlde” type of fun!!!
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Me too 🙂
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The voices were sooo convincing. 🙂
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I guess I’m still a kid at heart 🙂
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I think there’s a flaw in the space-ship… But they will figure out to fix it,
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For sure, nothing’s going to stop these two.
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Fun – your and Alicia Audrey’s make a good pair to read together.
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Ha, yes. The protagonists in both our stories only managed the one minute!
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The imaginations of children are wonderful things. I hope they have some exciting adventures in the spaceship! Great story.:)
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I’m sure they will. They’ll find adventure in everything!
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Loved this story! Had me laughing at the end! Kids.
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I love how kids can find adventure in everything. I’m glad you liked the story!
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We really are on the same wavelength. 🙂
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Yep 🙂
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“Hey, this time machine is busted! Only goes one way.”
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What a swizz! I want my money back 🙂
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As you know, Ali, the late, great astrophysicist and science communicator Carl Sagan hypothesized that there are possibly time travelers and that maybe a time machine could be built, but that it would only travel into the future (not into the past, the so-called grandfather paradox) [here’s one Nova/PBS link, if you want it: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/Sagan-Time-Travel.html%5D. As to whether one of your protags here is a bona fide alien or time traveler or a trickster or con-man, hmm, only time (ha!) and a longer story would tell or hint (or maybe not tell at all–keep us guessing!).
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Thanks for the link! I was thinking of a couple of kids, but maybe one of them is really a time traveller. Perhaps his time machine has been turned into a garden sculpture and he’s trying to get it back 🙂
Time travel gives me a headache if I think about it too hard 🙂
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Wonderful! I love the imagination of children 🙂
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Me too. I wonder where it goes when we grow up? 🙂
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It gets beaten out of us in HS I think.. lol Have a great weekend dear 🙂
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They took great pains to turn us into good little robots!
You have a great weekend too (and a good Friday) 🙂
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Indeed.. they tried with me, but failed.. ha! Thank you, dear 🙂
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What happened to me? How did I miss this? And it’s brilliant and funny. Love the story told entirely in dialogue. You are a master, Draliman!
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You found it in the end! I like doing dialogue, I find it easier than prose. After all, I talk every day!
I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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love it!
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Thanks!
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