Butts to the Future (Time Jumper Book 3) by Heide Goody & Iain Grant

Author:Heide Goody & Iain Grant [Goody, Heide & Grant, Iain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pigeon Park Press
Published: 2023-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

Soon enough, Alice was standing in the short Mickey Mouse print dress that Maddie and Astrid that dressed her in.

“Who is this grinning demon?” she asked.

“It’s Mickey Mouse,” said Astrid.

“It looks nothing like a mouse. This dress is too small. My privates will be right on show if I bends over!”

Maddie nodded in sympathy, but Astrid rolled her eyes. “Then don’t bend over when you’re wearing it. It’s very simple.”

“Can’t I put them on underneath?” Alice pointed at her favourite jeggings.

“Maybe with some boots?” Maddie suggested. “You need to be comfortable.”

Astrid huffed and grumbled, but she found some boots that worked and they were finally all ready to go. “Before we set off,” she said, “there’s something we should talk about.”

“Yes?” said Maddie.

“It’s the mechanics of what we’re doing,” said Astrid. “We don’t really know how it works.”

“Yeah, we do,” said Maddie. “It’s the stretchy bone method. Witchy tai-chi.”

“Using our hands to express our intent,” added Alice.

“It sounds so woolly,” said Astrid. “You two seem to be better at controlling it than I am.”

“But it works,” said Maddie. “Show us that photo you found.”

Astrid held up the printed photo of a London street in nineteen sixty-four.

“Okay, nineteen sixty-four,” said Maddie.

“Don’t say it like you’re punching in co-ordinates,” Astrid tutted.

“I’m trying to visualise it. It’s sixty years in the past … London… Link arms everyone.”

Astrid reached out for Maddie and the world flickered and flashed.

They stumbled apart on an uneven street. Shop fronts lined the pavement. The road was a hodgepodge of dressed stone and dirt.

“See?” said Maddie. “We did it. London.”

“This is London?” said Alice.

Astrid breathed in and could smell the low but pervasive tang of coal smoke on the air, plus something a bit more animal.

“London in the nineteen-sixties,” said Maddie.

Astrid looked at the smattering of people on the street. The men in their ill-fitting suits, the women in their long dresses.

“I’m not so sure…”

There was a shout. Astrid turned to see a horse-drawn cab bearing down on them at speed. Alice was right in the way. Astrid and Maddie grabbed for her as one. The high-wheeled cab sped by, the trailing edge of it catching Alice’s dress and spinning her round.

The women staggered back to the pavement. A string of colourful cockney expletives drifted back from the departing cabbie.

“Not the nineteen-sixties,” Maddie panted. “You all right, Alice?”

Alice grumbled, patting herself. “I’m unhurt. I think…”

“Nineteen hundred at the very earliest,” said Astrid. “We overshot by sixty years.”

The incident, slight though it was, had attracted the attention of some passers-by and a couple was drifting towards them.

“Okay, time to get out of here,” said Maddie. “Let’s look at that photo again. Right place but wrong time.”

Astrid had no sooner taken out the picture to show Maddie than they jumped again, from sunlight to sunlight.

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