Fear. That was the only word I could use

Fear. That was the only word I could use do describe the sensation circling through my petrified body. I breathed harder, and tears fell fast.

How? How could this happen? It- it shouldn't be-

It shouldn't look like this. Not this old ruin. It was supposed to be a magnificent city, full of flying cars and skyscrapers and roads made of gold! Not moss covered rocks!

I slumped to the ground, disheartened. The machine should have spirited me to the future, but now I was standing in the middle of nowhere, in what appeared to be an ancient Mayan

Wal-Mart. A Mayan greeted me. "Welcome to Wal-Mart," he greeted me in Mayan, which I somehow understood, despite being from the future. "We have a special on sacrifice gear today."

I bought an ornamental dagger with laser sight to automatically pinpoint victim's heart. With my coupon, I paid very little. "Shall I show you our altars?" asked the Mayan salesman

.Being anxious to do my part to save the world,I planned to try my laser sited dagger on the Mayan salesman as soon as he'd shown me an alter & said "Any price is nice.Lead the way

people on the streets of Hong Kong, where life is cheap but toilet paper is expensive. That was a movie I always wanted to see and still hadn't here in the future. It made me sad.

A lot of things made me sad, nowadays. It was a deep sort of sadness, one that never truly went away, but eventually faded into a numb, peaceful feeling.