The Time Machine

77 The Time Machine
Daniel Estill
American Studies
March 9th, 2008
As I watched The Time Traveler disappear, I noticed A piece of paper on his desk. I picked it up and held on to it for three years.
When I thought I should attempt it, I opened the paper. It was a note saying, “I am headed to the year 30584. I shall return in 1935 your time.”
I now realized I would not worry about him or his stuff. I set off at once to his workshop. I rummaged through his papers and found his time machine plans. I set off to start building another.
It was excruciatingly difficult to find all the parts for the levers and pulleys. Seven years later, I had it.
I set the contraption to 30584. I pulled the lever and felt the strangest sensations. Looking out the window, I saw buildings fall and become replaced with futuristic buildings of shiny silver.I saw hovering automobiles. The machine came to a slow stop, and I cautiously dismounted.
In my 19th century clothing, I hardly fitted in. Everybody looked as if they came from space! Looking for a familiar face, I saw red hair.
“Eureka!” I exclaimed out loud, for it was the time traveler! We caught up, him asking how I got here, and why I came, And myself asking myself Why I had ever doubted him about time travel.



78 The Time Machine

As he was telling me about the bizarre weather in the land of the Giant Crabs, he pointed to the west where the sun had been. With that notion, he gave a yelp of horror, as a Giant Morlock was attached to the bottom of a flying car. He calculated in his head that a single Morlock had clung to the time machines underside, away from vision and sunlight. And It was growing huge of the car’s fumes.
It could resist sunlight, as it dropped from the car and chased us. We split up and agreed to meet back in our time. I ran to where I had landed, and several curious passerby were examining and analyzing it. I pushed them down and set the machine back to our time.
I saw the Morlock disappear in a flash as the silvery buildings regained the more rustic look of our time. Once I had dismounted, I went to the time travelers workshop and sure enough, he was here. We were pondering about what had happened. The Morlock was big enough to take down a full-grown elephant. It had most likely taken over the city, But the world may never know.