Can someone please help me start this story?

Hmm... Quite an interesting topic you have there! Anyways, here is an idea.

For every man, woman and child on this planet, there is a destiny. Everyone has a job to do in his or her life, may they know it or not. Every action has already been pre-accounted for the beginning of time. Mistakes, destined to happen... The only thing that just might change that, is one's willpower.

However, is a person, a man, woman, or even a child destined to travel in time? May it be to the future, or the past. This is what happened to (first name) (last name), or so he claimed (or she). The cause of it? The source?... Unknown.

He/She was a brilliant historian. Always drowned in his/her studies, trying to discover the mysteries of the past, looking up countless sources at a time, always trying to solve cases that may be beyond any normal human's capacity. He/She always stayed up late, sometimes til morning simply thinking... Just thinking, pondering on two words that always arouse her doubts. What if?.

One particular day, (first name), sitting behind his desk in his house and drowned in his/her thoughts, as usual, heard an unusual sound coming from outside his/her house. He/She took a quick look at the time, which indicated 10:34 PM, and then went to investigate the strange noise. He/She gently and quietly opens his/her door, and takes a peek outside. The noise had suddenly disappeared, and no one was there. He closed the door, and as he turned around... He saw something rather disturbing. The clock indicated that it was already midnight. As he started approaching the clock, he noticed something else... The clock was frozen exactly at midnight, and is not (for some reason) functional anymore. He approached to grab it when he noticed one final shocking detail. Through that oval glass reflection of the clock, was a man! He/She instantly looked back, but to his/her surprise, there was no one there. He/She tried to gather her thoughts, thinking that he/she might just be delirious of all her thoughts. And just as he/she was turning his/her attention back at his/her clock, someone knocks her down to the ground with the clock, and just before he/she became unconscious, he/she took a last glare in front of her, only to see her clock shattered on the ground, and that very same man that he/she saw from the glass' reflection. The man had no figure, and was entirely black, as if it was made of a combination of shadows.

And as she became unconscious, she saw an irregular dream... Clocks were floating all around her,

and had the feeling that she was falling into a spiral, when she noticed that man once more.

"You truly want to know about the past? Follow me then, and all will be revealed".

I'll let you go on from here, I hope this helps :)

I thin it'd be awesome if he was a history professor and he was up late in his office. You could describe the office and such. Maybe have one of students come in to ask him a question or a friend checking on him and is worried about the late nights and his health. Then, from one of his high shelves of books, which he has many, a history book with magical properties falls an hits him on the head, knocking him unconscious. When he wakes up it's 2002 and in his old office since he's worked at the university for 13 years.

Maybe one day he gets wasted and falls asleep where he then goes back into soooo far (because he slept for a long time) then he wakes up at the signing of tye declaration of independence and everyone looks at him then he walks away and they sign the declaration without any problems at all because of good ol merican know how

How about this...

It has happened again. This time round, it was Michael Jackson. It was the most absurd dream one can ever conjure.

Michael could not have looked any better, he was in his prime and making one of his first movie "Thriller"... the cast were all fully fcused and captivated by his performance. Everything just seemed perfect."