RERUN WEEK #1: Skip blithely between tenses


I sit at my desk with my head in my hands and sighed. It is only three days until the deadline, I think, and I’m going to have had to finished everything before then. If only I have finish this now, I thought and lean back on my chair. Just then, the phone has rung. I am answering it.
‘Hello?’ I am going to have said. It is my editor; he was angry, but not as angry as I remember him being when I am handing in the work late, four days from now.
‘Is this work going to have been finished when it is currently the deadline which, at present, is in the future?’ he demanded. ‘I am planning to have been waiting for it, as I presently am.’

5 comments:

  1. I feel ill just reading it

    brilliant work

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  2. I couldn't even read all of this; I was too disoriented.

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  3. Oh yes, this certainly does a number on the brain. It's like reading on hard mode.

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  4. ^^^ If I could like that comment, I would.

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  5. I didn't want to have read this a second time, but now it's seeming I would have been going to do so anyway, if you know what I meant by that.

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