: Re: 20 Minutes into the Future - problem with setting the period I have just finished a short story, set in what is known as 20 Minutes into the Future - a time frame that's only a little into

I've seen some authors handle this sort of problem by using a quasi-poetic flourish, a nod to the reader, hanging a lantern on the issue so to speak. Opening with something to say: I know you don't know when this is--Don't sweat it.

Off the top of my head, brainstorming, I'd wonder about opening with something like:

Timeless--it's the nature of conflict, because in the absence of conflict there's no growth, and without growth, death. Big
conflicts stand outside time. At least, that's what Ryan's father
always said, and maybe the old man was right.

(It) could have happened tomorrow, or it could have happened ten years from now. Ryan never knew why (it) happened when it did, only
that it defined the fight of his life.

Some said they lived in the twenty-first century, and they probably did, although the propaganda wars had thrown so many things into
doubt--from evolution to the Holocaust to the reality of climate
change--that the idea of a given year really made no sense, not
anymore.

...Anyway, this probably won't work for your needs, but I have seen authors play around like this. Maybe you can add an epigraph up front that signals 'this is sort of now and the exact date doesn't matter.'.

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