Here’s my latest “100 Word Stories” microfiction. It’s partly inspired by

’s latest story in Gibberish:

Title: Wrong Time Period

I just want to visit the New Byzantine Empire at its height in the 24th century. But the time machine keeps going through the centuries until it stops.

When I step outside, I know something’s wrong. An image of a beautiful man with a golden crown is plastered all over the buildings. In each picture is a sentence in bolded text:

ALL HAIL AUGUSTUS CHRISTUS

I run into my time machine. My destination: any time period but this one. But the time machine won’t go. I don’t understand! It’s a new machine, and there’s enough power.

It just won’t go.