Fiction

It’s Not Like I Tried To Hurt Anyone

A short story about accidental time travel

Chris Scott
Human Parts
Published in
10 min readMay 30, 2017

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Illustration: Magnilion/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images, cropped from original

I n late May, Carla decided to build a house right smack dab on the highway median — right in the middle of the road, about 60 miles south of Haskell. She picked a spot that was relatively level and wide enough for a narrow, modest home — where the grass seemed mostly healthy enough for a yard…

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Chris Scott
Human Parts

Writer, gardener, and contributor for ClickHole. I live in Washington, DC.