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.
âWho is this grinning demon?â she asked.
âItâs Mickey Mouse,â said Astrid.
âIt looks nothing like a mouse. This dress is too small. My privates will be right on show if I bends over!â
Maddie nodded in sympathy, but Astrid rolled her eyes. âThen donât bend over when youâre wearing it. Itâs very simple.â
âCanât I put them on underneath?â Alice pointed at her favourite jeggings.
âMaybe with some boots?â Maddie suggested. âYou need to be comfortable.â
Astrid huffed and grumbled, but she found some boots that worked and they were finally all ready to go. âBefore we set off,â she said, âthereâs something we should talk about.â
âYes?â said Maddie.
âItâs the mechanics of what weâre doing,â said Astrid. âWe donât really know how it works.â
âYeah, we do,â said Maddie. âItâs the stretchy bone method. Witchy tai-chi.â
âUsing our hands to express our intent,â added Alice.
âIt sounds so woolly,â said Astrid. âYou two seem to be better at controlling it than I am.â
âBut it works,â said Maddie. âShow us that photo you found.â
Astrid held up the printed photo of a London street in nineteen sixty-four.
âOkay, nineteen sixty-four,â said Maddie.
âDonât say it like youâre punching in co-ordinates,â Astrid tutted.
âIâm trying to visualise it. Itâs sixty years in the past ⦠London⦠Link arms everyone.â
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.
âSee?â said Maddie. âWe did it. London.â
âThis is London?â 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.
âLondon in the nineteen-sixties,â 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.
âIâm not so sureâ¦â
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 Aliceâs dress and spinning her round.
The women staggered back to the pavement. A string of colourful cockney expletives drifted back from the departing cabbie.
âNot the nineteen-sixties,â Maddie panted. âYou all right, Alice?â
Alice grumbled, patting herself. âIâm unhurt. I thinkâ¦â
âNineteen hundred at the very earliest,â said Astrid. âWe overshot by sixty years.â
The incident, slight though it was, had attracted the attention of some passers-by and a couple was drifting towards them.
âOkay, time to get out of here,â said Maddie. âLetâs look at that photo again. Right place but wrong time.â
Astrid had no sooner taken out the picture to show Maddie than they jumped again, from sunlight to sunlight.
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