Kim's master came into the kitchen. From the look on his face, she could see what he wanted, and it wasn't food. His dark eyes seemed to be drilling into hers. She stopped kneading the bread, putting it down on the counter and turned to face him. Her hear...
“Boo!” Charise jerked forward in her chair, bumped from behind. She sputtered and spat up the soda she had just sipped, spritzing it on her desk and legs. “Dunlop! You asshole!” “Apologies, Charise,” the professor chuckled. The white-haired, wrinkled kook...
Desolate tears fell, as she returned her beloved to the earth. Their love for each other was legendary in this strange land. Almost as renowned as their deeds at Arthur’s side; a mighty sword and shield, envied by all. “Goodbye, my gentle giant, my treasu...
June 28. The year is irrelevant. Julia and Terry were throwing a pajama party. The decorations and refreshments were simple. The coffee table was decked with a fuchsia table runner and sprinkled with confetti. Champaign glasses flanked the ice bucket hol...
The cell door closed with a frightening finality. Vinci thought that he shouldn’t call it a cell since it had no resemblance to a Twenty-First Century jail cell, but the feeling was the same. He was confused as to why he was being held and hoped tomorrow...
The Astro Van’s engine screams like a wounded animal as it drifts in a wide arc under the bright metallic rain of tracer rounds. Most of them miss, except the ones that don’t. They blast down through the passenger seat with the trailing scent of brimstone...
Prolog: The Nobel Prize speech I can't give Olivia giggled as I lifted her breast to my mouth like a microphone. "Majesties, Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen. I accept the Nobel Prize in physics for my invention of a time machine. My friend Olivia Smallwoo...
So when I saw The Corporation’s ad looking for volunteers I was happy to sign up. They didn’t call it “time travel,” but that’s what it was. A handful of people were going to be sent to another era. They wouldn’t be able to come back. Only a few peopl...
I arrived at the summer fair with ten minutes to spare. I was meeting friends at six o’clock. It was a warm Friday evening and dusk was beginning to settle. I loved fairgrounds and found myself enchanted by fantastic, dazzling lights and joyful screams. ...
Caroline dumped her books so loudly on the table that it caused Mike to look up momentarily from his laptop. “Hi, Caroline, I take it the tutorial didn’t go so well?” Caroline slumped onto the chair opposite him. “The pompous bitch basically told me to st...
We've all seen the film, we've all heard the premise: Groundhog Day. It's funny, right? Okay, yeah, for Bill Murray it's a total fucking nightmare, isn't it? I'm not Bill Murray, though; my Groundhog Day's better than his. This is the seventh time my alar...
“Go fuck yourself!” she yelled. Immediately, he was falling. He landed with a splash, naked, in the shower behind himself, two weeks later. His future self handed him the lubricant. “We’ve got five minutes!” Already hard, he stood and slid straight into...
The Observer was well hidden. There were decadent moans, followed by a flash of light—and another key moment of the past was witnessed. Four moving on, two remaining! Robin and Marion. Moving closer, he saw they had eyes only for each other. They kissed;...
"I'll see you in the next life." Those were her final words before she shut her eyes and never opened them again. Those were the words that haunted me echoing endlessly; leaving me to realize that sometimes loneliness can be loud.I remembered saying to he...
“I can’t think of a better reason for inventing time travel, can you?” I, Isaac Heinlein, genius and man about town, scratched my chin, my new beard always made me itchy. “Yeah, but it won’t work, Ray. You’ve seen the movies, it never works properly. Ther...
