The story takes place in the future where time traveling has already been invented. A man named Eckles goes on a Safari to the past where the focus is to hunt a T-Rex. He, and the rest of the safari, are given explicit instructions to not step off the path and not to touch anything. When Eckles gets freaked out by his first glimpse of the T-Rex and the whole group runs back to the time machine, Eckles goes off the path. He discovers that besides just mud on the bottom of his boots there's a small, crushed butterfly. When they return to present day, they discover that everything has changed, from the language they speak to the president that was just elected. Eckles is shot by the leader of the safari.
A cool quote during their interaction with the T-Rex, is: "The Monster,at the first motion, lunged forward with a terrible scream. It covered one hundred yards in six seconds. The rifles jerked up and blazed fire. A windstorm from the beast's mouth engulfed them in the stench of slime and old blood. The Monster roared, teeth glittering with sun." The description and word choice in this paragraph really pull the reader into the moment and makes them experience the different sensations that the characters are. I can almost see the gun shots and smell the slime and old blood.
On a side note, I think it's a bit ironic how stepping on one butterfly can change the world so monumentally while the whole point of the trip was to hunt the Tyrannosaurus.
Sky, sounds like a good story. I like your thought on the butterfly.
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