You’re The Pilot

Written for https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/reenas-xploration-challenge-266/

It was the government’s motto ‘The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.’ Since 2043, and the invention of time travel, time flew for the rich. They could travel back and forth, without censorship. If they wanted to bring back valuables, or even live another life, they could.

For the poor, it was a way of keeping them under control. They could never be the pilot, and many found themselves deleted from the human race. One moment alive, with a wife, husband, or partner. The next their whole existence erased.

Children, opportunities, jobs gone in an instant. No warning. Nothing to let you know your life was at an end. People lived for ever, the planet’s surface depleted, space travel was the only answer.

Many animals were extinct, the rainforest replaced with oxygen modules instead.

Sar wished she could travel back in…