Copyright Rich Voza
This wing was simply called THE PAST. The first door opened to dinosaurs and tree ferns. Inside the next room, Neanderthals roasting an animal over a fire. More doors, more scenes. The pyramids being built, Roman armies, the Spanish Inquisition, Pilgrims, Valley Forge, a Civil War battle, the Wright brothers flight, flappers, Okies fleeing the dust bowl, Iwo Jima, a nuclear explosion, Kennedy shot, man on the moon, Viet Nam, the space shuttle, New Orleans underwater.
The door at the end was signed THE FUTURE. It opened to vast, barren, dead landscape stretching as far as the eye could see.
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Cool premise. Does this mean we started over with our future? Pretty eerie. I liked all the events you chose. Nice job!
Very cool take on the prompt
The hall sounds like a great place to learn about history. The door at the end sounds not so good. Nicely done, even though stark.
Well done. What to do in such a hallway…?
Sounds like we are all screwed….
Tom
Creative interpretation of the photo prompt, well done. But, oh, how sad. What if the view from the last door could change every day, depending on our collective actions? (Hmmm…. I guess that would be a longer story.)
Interesting history lesson….however, did you purposely omit the last door of hope and promise? Revelation, the return of Jesus and HIS promise of 1,000 years of peace?
I guess I’m not the only one to see time travel in that hallway. I guess we go off the fiscal cliff, is that what happens? Interesting contrast between the richness of the past and the stark emptiness of the future.
An original take on the prompt. Well done Ron.
Now that’s a unique way of having someone’s life (and everyone else’s at the same time) pass before his eyes. I liked the history behind the doors. This person’s future looks a little bleak though.
Nice, Ron,
Shalom,
Rochelle
It would be cool to have a time-travel hall like that. Kind of like C.S. Lewis’ “wood between the worlds” but for times. So, are we all dead in the future, or is it only because the future is inherently unknowable. Very interesting ideas.
I always dig the apocalyptic. This is a great premise–opening doors on the past, then the future. You should expand it.
Here’s mine: http://unexpectedpaths.com/friday-fictioneers/the-purge/
P.S., And thanks for your story–it means I’m not the only one who went dark.
aww crap. that was NOT what i was hoping for! i like the idea of being in that position. i wonder if i would open it? would you open it? good stories bring questions, sometimes answers are not possible. well done.
Very unique and creative what you have done here…i really like it. Well done
I’m torn between seeing this as a warning and a blank slate for a future not yet created. I hope it’s the latter – I like to think the future is not yet written.
I like your take on the picture. I’m glad I wait till I post mine to read everyone’s. Hoping the look to the future means we have a chance to change it.
Very original. It would be fun to have a hallway like that, except for that Future door. But I guess you can always step into the past to avoid it 8^)
I can see the whole thing before my eyes. Excellently told.
Nicely written, with a chilling ending!
Oh that future that we rather not know about… Past disasters we accept but the future ones are just there, but we the door should be shut and locked… or
What a cool place. But can we change what is seen through the door of the future? Rather bleak. I was laughing so hard at Tom Poet’s comment I couldn’t make my own for quite some time.
A museum with a wing dedicated to the future. That could hold many ideas and inventions. This building has held a lot of secrets and been re-purposed many different ways, by the look of this week’s stories.
What about the Spanish Inquisition? Also, I’m interested in the room where they legalized marijuana in Colorado. Are they across the hall?
lots of doors, and it’s fun to see how different a hallway can be. A good take.
Clearly the apocalypse is imminent! Why am I so excited?
I had an idea for a novel like this once, where we learned to access the past, but then someone tried to access the future, and discovered it was a wasteland. Very humbling.
Love the story, but not the prediction. Let’s hope it’s only fiction.
Ron, I absolutely love your story. If this is a museum, I would love to visit.
Very nice work!
Awesome, man! Desolate ending, but unfortunately probably not too far off from reality.
With man’s penchant for exploration, your door may show Earth after man has left to start fresh on a new planet. Now there’s “Change” for you….Good story, Ron!
Hope they didn’t want their money back!
Scott
Mine: http://kindredspirit23.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/friday-fictioneers-9/
“We didn’t start the fire. it was always burning since the world’s been turning. We didn’t start the fire….
Ron, this was great yet bleak. You remind me of me. Good job.
Aloha,
Doug
I would love to open those doors and watch a while.
Great story!