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Special Vocabulary

Published onApr 17, 2022
Special Vocabulary
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These stories are about now and also the past in the future. So, we need some new words to sort things out.

Sometimes it’s difficult to talk about the future as a memory; about your past as everyone’s former future. These new words might help.

You can come up with your own new words too, just add them in here.

Abouttimeance

Retribution, judgement, acknowledgement of future/past wrongs. When those actions you diddone impact your life in the new now. “Everyone knows Steve willbewho a bully. Yesterday he got his abouttimeance when nobody would hire him.” It’s comeuppance for things you haven’t done yet in the new now.

Afterkinder

Children born after August 19, 1967 in the future/past. We do not know what happened to them when the time quake hit. Timedrifter parents, and others retain the memories of these afterkinder children. Their sudden absence and unknown fate creates an emotional burden on many timedrifters.

Diddone

So you wake up fifty-two years ago and remember everything. Other timedrifters who knew you in the future/past also have memories of your time together. Things you did then haven’t happened yet, but you diddone them anyhow, as long as somebody remembers them. This doesn’t mean you will do the same things again, just that you diddone them last time around. People judge other people by their actions, and themselves by their intentions. Just remember, it’s likely you’ve got some ‘splainin to do.

Future/past

The fifty-two years (approximately) that disappeared on September 2, 2019. A period of time now only preserved in the memories of the one billion plus timedrifters who woke up back in 1967.

New now

The present time, used when contrasting with the future/past

Olders

People who were older than thirty in 1967 and were not alive in September of 2019.

Pregret

Regrets emerge from your memories to hound you in the present. Pregrets emerge from memories of what you diddone in the future/past. They disappear when you do not repeat them in this future.

Realagers

Individuals born in the new now. Anyone born after 9 a.m. (UTC) August 19, 1967.

Realtimers

All the individuals alive in 1967, and who did not retain a memory of the future/past (mainly, they died before 2019). They numbered more than three billion in 1967.

Rememory

Timedrifter memories of people and events in the future/past.

Timedrifter

Any of the billion or so individuals who were alive in 2019 and older than 30 months in August of 1967, and who can remember their lives in the future/past. Apparently, the hippocampus (the brain’s memory card) cannot handle a fifty-two year memory dump until it’s around 30 months old. In 1967, timedrifters ranged in age from two-and-a-half years to nearly sixty years. Most were under twenty.

Willbewhere

Descriptions of places in the future/past

Willbewho

Descriptions of people in the future/past

Willhavebeen

Descriptions of objects in the future/past

Willhavesaid

Direct quotes from the future/past

Younglings

People who were thirty or younger in 1967, but died before September of 2019.

young/old

See: timedrifter

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