Here is your prompt, thoroughly cleaned and oiled and ready for use! Like many our prompts, this one could inspire many different types of stories. Fortunately, though, you need only pick one! Remember, your story should be 100 words left either in the comments of this post (not the Facebook post!) or at your own web place with a link back to us, please.
Show us the stories you create in this place of lovely machines!
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Clatter and clamor drew her to the workshop. The oil stink of hot metal reminded her of shop class, the sort of place you’d need to count your fingers when you left.
Their neighbor wore a black wool coat, long enough to sweep the floor. His eyes shone when he stared at her, like her dog when she held out a treat.
“Is this a press?” Her fingers lifted dark grease as her smile faltered. The floor beneath her shifted and bricks transformed to cobblestones.
Flash of silver knife in swirling fog and gaslights, he answers, “No, a time machine.”
Posted on Medium at:
https://medium.com/@TurpinTerrye/clatter-and-clamor-98b919944eee?sk=5e11a7d5a64b99429224e8597fed372c
I closed my eyes and opened the door and stepped over the threshold in my workshop as I had a thousand times before. I inhaled deeply and smelled the oil, grease, and ink as I reached over to flip the power switch. My ears perked up as the hum of the equipment came to life. I smiled as I slowly opened my eyes and took in the beauty of my creation. Since the first year of the internet, I have printed a sample of the world. News from England, science journal from MIT and a random far off corner of the world wide web.