One original sci-fi story per day for all of 2023 | Created by screenwriter Timothy Michael Cooper, illustrated using A.I.

Shed

Shed

Don't get in that Toyota! he wants to scream at the boy. But you can't scream into the past. You can’t be as old and wise then as you are now, finally growing wisps of hair on your upper lip—you’ve been in this shed that long. You’re strong, but no amount of strength will break through steel-reinforced concrete walls, double-insulated tiny soundproof windows. And The Man is too smart for any tricks. But once you get a little bigger, observe enough, grow wise enough, you won’t need to think about the past anymore—you can finally start thinking about the future.