Axelrod is one of the founders of 365 Tomorrows, which presents a piece of flash fiction every day of the year. This was their first time travel story, a story in which ships bring items from the future with unpredictable consequences.

In his second time-travel story, 365 Tomorrows founder Jared Axelrod has a rummage sale aficionado stumble across a time machine and philosophically discuss why the owner would let it go for five dollars.

—a renter disappears

Demetri Thornwick is pissed by the D- he received on a term paper that computes the MDZC for changes made even when DT>200 years.

According to young Aaron’s buddy Hamel, once people get time machines, there’s no telling which descendants are going to bite the dust.

—3m year-old human skull found

—time-travel researcher being watched

—team hunts time travelers

—Stan argues that he can time travel

—little brother time travels

—time-traveling rich kids

—traveler visits Einstein’s death

—I want that car!

—drunken scientists travels forward

—travel to abandoned world

—rivals at a temporal physics conference

—time traveler misses own wedding

A man with an Ethiopian alias plans a seemingly impossible time travel escapade in humanity’s far past.

—to before the big bang

—an old man tells how it used to be

—Angela Lansburyfield time-travel murder

—time-travel philosophy

Professor Rudnicki sits in a bar, bemoaning the particular mode of failure of his latest time travel.

—free movement thru time only

—AIs and time machines don’t mix

—thief to ancient Egypt

—Homes and Wattson

—crowdsourcing the classics

—sliding sideways and forward in time

A man’s time machine takes him to the far future where he’s given the choice of which of four collectors to ally with.

—miscalculation going forward

—visits from a future self

A Roman general tests a maxim propounded by a time traveler.

—working temp jobs in past

—escape artists exiled in time

—ancient telegram warns time traveler

A Chronology Enforcement agent is after archaeologist Lloyd Fry for bringing something other than his body back to a pre-unity time.

I wish that it had been clear at the end whether Lloyd remembered anything of the encounter, but even without that, there were pieces I enjoyed.

—preventing the human scourge

—I don’t know what P is for

—time-travel lecture

—time travel/bungee cord analogy

—time-travel bigwig and guide get stuck

—time cops to Biblical times

—a net to catch time meddlers

—old man finds traveler

—time machine with no receiver

—archivist interviews scientists

—mind travelers . . . or not?

Duncan Shields is one of the more prolific writers at 365 Tomorrows—quite possibly producing 365 time travelers on his own—and for me, this is one of his better stories.

Normally, I don’t like suicides in stories because I feel that the topic is often approached in a shallow manner, but in this case, Shields’s hero has a hobby of tracking and trying to understand teen suicides while he philosophizes about the alternate universes created by time travel.

I love the cavalier attitude of this woman whose sweetheart invents things. Must be a metaphor for something.

—android wonders about origin of life

—accidental retrieval of past dignitary

A young couple waits in line 45 days so that they can emigrate to the 14th century.

—leaping ahead a few millennia

A mad scientist wants to travel back to meet God before He destroyed Himself to create the universe we live in.

—making best possible world

—teen time travelers

—killing a despot’s ancestor

—amateur time traveler

—traveler emerges from alley

—serial killer targets travelers

—Why so many travelers at my house?

Dan can’t figure out why dozens of people are staring at him during the month that scientists announce the discovery of time travel.

A battlefield plunderer meets his own dead self.

Anthony and Lamar travel back to find copies of Stephen Hawking’s lost papers

—dead authors sign books

—700,000 burning time travelers

—grandfather paradox twist

Dr. David Jansen travels back to the late 1960s, falls in love with a beautiful redhead, and promises to return.

—branching universes suck

—mention of tachyons

—time machine in copy mode

—janitor visits himself

Solberg—a rich, individualist inventor—insists on using his time machine without having it vetted by his staff, and he thereby falls into a trap. Perhaps I have just read too much time travel (blasphemy!), but I feel that Carhart fell into the same trap as her protagonist: For me, the story needed to be vetted by someone who could say how much this particular idea needs a new twist if it’s to work.

—traveler not picked up

A twist on how meeting yourself for coffee interacts with how time travel works in your universe.

—astronaut repeated tossed back

When the crew of the Tsiolkovsky took off on a 100-year hibernation journey to Alpha Centauri, they didn’t fully realize what their legacy as pioneers would be.

—blood-suckers from the future

—observe but don’t be observed

—time machine blueprints are found

—jokester time traveler

Charlie may be at a playground, but this is no laughing matter. People have disappeared.

Wilson tells of a unique being who waits at wormholes to gobble time travelers.

—to 1066

—Hawking’s time travel party

—robot from the future

In the moments before a jump, a traveler muses over the realities of time travel.

—Dr. Sinistral’s evil time machine

—early humans receive tools

—the first time traveler

—to Primal Earth

—a long distance relationship

—physicist visits movie star

—phone call to the past

The traveling companion of a reluctant time-travel tourist is running late again.

A pair of time travelers try to learn the old skills such as starting a fire from rubbing sticks.

—not-very-accurate time machine

—time traveler meets future tech

Two paleontologists discover a fossilized mammal in an impossible location.

—man visits himself repeatedly

—time-traveling superhero appears today

A time-travel researcher awakens as an ape-like mammal in the Jurassic where he meets at least one other modern animal.

Why time travel at all? Dinner!

—short-term waitress time travels

—a merciful time traveler

A thought-provoking story of an ambulance that goes back to the time before the accident.

A time-traveler sends his regrets for being unable to attend the widely announced reception that Stephen Hawking threw with an open invitation to all time travelers.

—time-machine wife revenge

—strict rules exist on changing the past

—restoring the original timeline

—an unpredictable time machine

—time machines and courts of law

—time traveler vs himselves biannually

—circular time on a prison planet

—postapocalytic time machine

—back to the primordial solar system

—saving a scientist’s son

—a grandfather paradox

—end-of-world time loop

—that whole Earth-is-moving business

—a 13-hour watch controls time

—illicit sampling of past food and wine

—trapped in a long time loop as an observer

—mining the past for trash

—time reversal at a 1 to –1 ratio

—timeloop on a spaceship with no food

—Alex seems to repeat his Saturday

—going back to save the city from fire

—fix your mistakes with a black market time machine

—Vienna in the early 1900s

—a button to return you to age eight

—each trip back creates an alternate reality