It's Time to Vote for the winner of the Time Police Writing Competition
Regulation 847.6 Has Been Breached
It’s time to vote for the TIME POLICE Regulation 847.6 competition.
This is what we asked for:
Tone: Deadpan bureaucratic logic meets total time-travel disaster.
How It Works
Write Regulation 847.6 (overly specific, official sounding).
Write the timeline of the incident that forced the Time Police to create it.
Show the chaos escalating logically but absurdly.
Style Guidelines
Formal report tone
Ridiculous problem treated seriously
Increasingly specific details
Bureaucracy making everything worse
Your Entry Should Include
A named officer or department
A time-travel mistake
Escalation into disaster
The creation of Regulation 847.6
Recommended length: 400–800 words
Minimum: 200 words
Maximum: 1,200 words
Example Regulation
Regulation 847.6: Officers are prohibited from scheduling overlapping historical revolutions without prior clearance from Administrative Chronology and a completed Form 847.6-C (Revolution Sequencing).
The prize will be a £50 gift card from Bookshop.org
The winner will be chosen by a reader poll from closing on the 12th of May, with the winner announced in the May 13th newsletter.
Great stories. I was so relieved to read the ending of Elaine Perkins’ story. Any future without coffee is no future.