/lit/ - Literature

It is not uncommon on the reasonably sized bluish-greenish planet called Ourth for a criminal to commit a felony and then travel back through time to when his crime hadn't been realized yet. In fact, the practice of time travel (or colloquially "zipping") is fairly commonplace in Ourthan society. Although critics might rag on the activity of spacetime distortion for its use preempting "paradoxes" or "tax evasion," its practice is widely accepted - mostly because no matter how much an effort is spent to stop the production of time travel devices, somebody will preserve them somewhen else.

This is the case with a ratty citizen of a town named Zot on the western side of a massive continent surrounded by many miles of inconveniently non-potable water who calls himself Berty Keese, a petty murderer who’s stuck himself in a terrible situation by accidentally traveling back to the exact house and time of his victim’s twentieth birthday. Now accidents like this happen here and there and most people accept it and have their surprise guest on their way somewhere else, but in the case of Pavel Surring, the victim, the invader was more than welcome to stay a while. After all it was his birthday, and nothing should go wrong for anyone at such a wonderful time, he thought.

>if you can guess who i was inspired by, then i lose