Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories

Crowning the Past

Source date: 2020-03-241 min readComplete text

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[WP] The time traveler will drop you off anywhere, anytime on Earth. You'll win $1000 for each person whose life you saved in the next 24 hours, but you'll lose it all if your actions kill more people in the next year than you saved.
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THE MOMENT

"What do you mean no money?"

Ted asked Glenn with a glare.

"Are you trying to be funny?

I took back tech, math and, a fair

bit of trade and medical info."

Ted grinned and shrugged.

"I advanced the world overnight.

At least a century; I had to

have saved more lives. Right?"

"There's a problem with your logic,"

Glenn said. "You forgot you were sick."

"The people were eager to expand."

"What you didn't teach them at all

was to wash their hands..."

...after you infected them all with corona."

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