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shirley-bullock's picture
Sep.10.2008
Have you ever wished to be anywhere but where you are now? Be careful.  That is just what nurse Geri Lanham did while assisting the doctor in removing her favorite patient from life support. Something goes terribly wrong and she ends up in 1888! Contending with time travel was bad enough but...
raymond-benson's picture
Jun.10.2008
A writer in the future travels back in time to write the big best-sellers before the real writers do in this "Twilight Zone"-style tale.
laurie-viera-rigler's picture
Jun.05.2008
After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy? Not...
peter-delacorte's picture
Jun.04.2008
Travel writer Gabriel Prince runs into an eccentric fellow American at the Musee des Techniques in Paris. Turns out Jasper Hudnut is a noted physicist who has (1) access to a time machine; and (2) a propostion--how would Gabriel like to go back in time and sidetrack Ronald Reagan's path to the...
nancy-etchemendy's picture
May.09.2008
Everyone knows a computer's "undo" command will erase a mistake.  Thanks to a device called the Unner, middle-schooler Gib Finney can do the same thing -- in real life.  At first he thinks this is better than winning the lottery; he'll never flunk another test, never lose another bet,...
kathryn-reiss's picture
Apr.25.2008
linda-kay-silva's picture
Mar.07.2008
Across Time is about Jessie Ferguson, a seventeen year old who hears a cry for help from one of her past lives. Cate is a Druid priestess who has had a vision that revealed two catastrophes; one is the massacre of her people on an island, and the other is the death of her beloved. In an effort to...
priscilla-hodgkins's picture
Jan.27.2008
Personal essay about tending to an aging parent and considerations of time and time travel. The complete essay is available here: http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/articles/issue09/09hodgkins_einsteindidnt.htm
mark-london-williams's picture
Jan.17.2008
After another close call, Eli Sands, aka Danger Boy, is back in San Francisco in 2020. The bad news is that he and his friends, Clyne and Thea, are being held captive by the government agency DARPA. Since their last foray into the Fifth Dimension, history has been unraveling, the deadly slow pox is...