The Time Capsule

by Daniel H.

The time capsule landed in the town square on a Thursday. Everyone in town gathered around it to see what it was, and why it was here, and why it was shaped like a coffin. The Japanese exchange student seemed shocked the most, as if he saw it before. Perhaps whoever sent it wanted a dead body or something.

30 minutes after the landing of the 'Coffin Capsule' there was police surrounding it while the citizens of Ashtown stood back a few feet. The capsule was a light brown and merely 7 feet tall, there was two handles hanging off the front for hands or something.

A leg suddenly jolted out of the coffin and a very tall man stepped out with a grim smile on his face. He looked like a total nut-job, he wore a long, pinkish purple robe, and a ripped up top hat. The joy in his eyes frightened me. He looked Japanese. He started to speak, “ Hello fellow earthlings, I am Kamato from one of Japans most expensive organizations. I was sent here to tell you that you have 24 hours to lend an item that you own, to me and my capsule, for future presentation. Now, if you dont want to you dont have to. ALSO, if you give me something to take on my adventure back to the year 3536 for three consecutive weeks, I will give you an award of $100.” 

“Heck Yeah!” I said. “This is cool!” I was so excited, this was the ONLY exciting thing that has ever happened in Ashtown. I couldn't believe my eyes... or ears. I ran home as fast as I could and picked out 2 things that I thought wouldn't be in the future. It took a while for me to make up my mind, but in the end I ended up with a bow and arrow, (my dads, which I wasn't allowed to touch) and an iphone (first generation, mine). I picked these two items because there both technological and cultural items. I could give people of the future something old and something really really  old. 

I walked back carrying the two items, everyone was still there, including the police, but they seemed less alerted. When I arrived, Kamoto had tons of things in there, and fortunately nothing that I had set to loan. I set my stuff down in his coffin and roughly an hour later he left. 

He never returned.