TimeMail: Time Travel Email

By T.Z. Barry

Mark, a pizza delivery driver in the year 2016, gets an email from his own account, claiming to be himself from 30 years in the future.

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Dear Me,

It's you...from the future.

I know what you're thinking—"BULLSH*T"—but I swear it's really me. I'm you.

I'm contacting you through TimeMail (time travel email). This is the first time I've tried it, and I'm not even sure if it actually works, but I have some really important things to tell you about your future—my past—our life. So I thought I'd give it a try.

Anyway, if you (I) receive this message, email me (yourself) back. And tell me something only we would know, so I can confirm it's really you—or me. Once I know this is legit, we can proceed from there.

Yours truly,
You

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"TimeMail: Time Travel Email" is a short story in the form of the email exchange that follows.

Is "Future Mark" telling the truth? Is time travel email possible? Read the TimeMails yourself and be the judge.

• Language: English
• Publisher: T.Z. Barry
• Release date: Sep 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370663538

T.Z. Barry

T.Z. Barry is a time traveler from the future who came back to the past to write true stories of his present and pretend they’re science fiction. (Don’t tell anyone.)

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TIMEMAIL

Time Travel Email

Tim Barry Jr.

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Copyright © 2016 Tim Barry Jr.

All rights reserved.

From: [e-mail]

To: [e-mail]

Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 10:16 AM

Subject: Email from the Future

Dear Me,

It’s you…from the future.

I know what you’re thinking—BULLSHIT—but I swear it’s really me. I’m you.

I’m contacting you through TimeMail (time travel email).

This is the first time I’ve tried it, and I’m not even sure if it actually works, but I have some really important things to tell you about your future—my past—our life. So I thought I’d give it a try.

Anyway, if you (I) receive this message, email me (yourself) back. And tell me something only we would know, so I can confirm it’s really you—or me. Once I know this is legit, we can proceed from there.

Yours truly,

You

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From: [e-mail]

To: [e-mail]

Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 10:31 AM

Subject: Re: Email from the Future

WTF is this? Did you hack into my email? Is this some kind of practical joke?

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From: [e-mail]

To: [e-mail]

Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 10:53 AM

Subject: Re: Email from the Future

Past Me,

I’m sorry. I know this is difficult for us to believe, but I’m really you—from the future.

Look, I don’t know how TimeMail works, but some super smart scientists in the future figured out a way to send information back in time through the internet. They can’t send people back or anything—only email. So we can’t kill our own grandfathers. And the TimeMails can only travel back 30 years to the day exactly, so we can’t tell someone to kill baby Hitler or