Before Leo could answer, the water began to boil. The stream fractured into a kaleidoscope of decades: flapper girls splashing in 1922, a Roman soldier cannonballing into 74 AD, a blurred figure in a silver suit from 2147.
For the next hour, he tested the limits. He could send soap bubbles through the stream. He could change the channel to 1985 and feel the heat of a different sun. But every time he tried to send a message—“Sell Apple stock,” “Stop the ozone hole”—the stream garbled it into static. hot tub time machine stream
Here’s a short story based on your prompt. Before Leo could answer, the water began to boil