Future Tense Novels & Stories

W⁠anted‌ a future I⁠ hadn't even c⁠onsidered poss‍ible. "I need to think," I said finally. "About w‍hat I wa‌nt. Wha​t I can live with. Wha‍t fut​ure I can acc‌ept." ​ "How long⁠?" Caelan asked. "I don't kn​ow. As⁠ l⁠ong as‌ it t⁠akes." ⁠

Timi: I was giving you space and again, I am sorry. Me: Let’s not talk about it. Timi: I’ll pick you up at twelve. Are you at your place or at your Parent’s? Me: I am at my parent’s place, but I will need to go home and get dressed up. Timi: Okay then. Me: Goodnight Timi: Goodnight I slept that night hoping tomorrow will come fast. I knew Timi wasn’t always going to be around but I made up my mind to stop trying to see the future but rather focus on the present. I decided to live in the moment and let the future take care of itself.

he whispers to himself, looking away from me to have a silent freak-out, "That's why your mom wants to use you to gamble? And why you're so sure I won't die young. You don't just 'know' it, but you see it?" "Yes," I finally respond, sighing. There’s no point in lying or deflecting, "I can see the future... I can see multiple futures, to be honest. The most probable ones are very clear, but there's millions of options. A few things are destined to happen, but nothing is ever for certain, so the same thing could happen in a lot of different ways. Say... someone has to die, there's a million different ways for it to happen, but if it's something that big, it will happen even if I tried to stop

"I don't know where I will be in the next few years, I might be dead." I ran my hands through my hair frustratedly. "I don't know and I don't want to know. What matters to me is the present and not the future. I have a lot of problems that I need to tackle and thinking about my future and where I would be is a hassle that I don't want to take part in" The car driver bobbed his head slowly. "I understand where you are coming from, miss, but the things that we envision about ourselves in the future give us the strength to tackle the problems in the present, "

“You’re scaring them.” The girl tilted her head. “Them?” She looked at Kieran, frozen mid-roar. At Nero, frozen mid-ice. “Oh. The _attachments_.” She waved her hand. Kieran _fell_. Caught himself. Gasping. “_What_—” “Time,” the boy said. Cheerful. “We _are_ time. Past. Present. Future. All _now_.” He snapped his fingers. Kieran _aged_. 50. 70. 90.

' Then without hesitation, he called his time machine again. "Tim------much---- we need to go back in the future 2,000,027 years from now!" "Tit" ~Host command is impossible. The host need to wait 10 years.~ "Ah!" "Useless!" "What do we do now?" "Tit!" ~Host can teleport.~ "You!!!!" "Why say it now!" "Tit!" ~Host did not ask~ "Then teleport us to a safe place." ~Wait for host~ "Tit!" "....."

Someone who had something large to say and knew that the large version would not reach me the way the small version would. She was proud. Present tense would have been too much. Future tense would have been a promise neither of us could make. The past tense was honest. Past tense was the only thing that could not be argued with or taken back or procedurally challenged. She was proud. While she was alive. Whatever came before and after, that part was true. I pressed my hands flat on the cold stone wall and breathed. ++++++++

Tian Sen didn’t need to live dwelling on the past; it was better to think about the future that hadn’t happened yet than the past that had already occurred. “Let the past be a lesson for the future, and make the future your goal right now! If you’re always dwelling on the past, you’ll just be trapped in a never-ending cycle,” said We Yan with a gentle smile on her face. But when Tian Sen heard We Yan’s words, he began to understand their meaning a little better.

"Yes. We're going to talk about our past. So it's called past tense." "I prefer we play future tense," I grumble and she laughs. "Do you need me to do the plea puppy eyes or you will agree before I do that?" "Fine! Your wish is my command, my queen." I kiss her and give her the wine. I sip my wine while looking at her swirling the wine. I noticed this game had something to do with her mood yesterday. She needs to clear her brain from whatever shit someone told her. And if with this it can help her, I'm all in.

They just listened to the waves and the sound of the gulls overhead. Then River spoke again. “You ever think about the future, Jace?” Jace blinked. “The future?” “Yeah,” River said, his tone thoughtful. “Like… where we’ll be in a few years. What we’ll be doing. Whether we’ll still be together.” Jace hesitated, then nodded slowly. “Sometimes. I used to think about the future in numbers, plans, profits, growth charts. But lately…” He paused, looking out at the ocean. “Lately, I picture something different. Something simple.”