No Inmate Returns

 When scientists promised after traveling in the time machine, no inmate ever returned to jail, I grabbed the chance. I decided not go back to the bar where I killed four people, instead I revisited myself in the sixth grade, when my anger started boiling out of control.


            I put my hands around my own throat, trying to convince myself not to pound Ricky Gerald into a coma. Now I’m feeling rather faint as my younger self lies dying and I wonder one thing: Did they mean no inmate returns to crime or no inmate returns?

 

 

 

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 Nice twist. Who would have

 Nice twist. Who would have thought that time travel could become a 'get out of jail free' card quite like this?

-anneliese

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 I really liked the story but

 I really liked the story but the first paragraph needs some editing. I think you missed a that and a to.

 

Dave K

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