Time on the Loose by Linda Maye Adams

Author:Linda Maye Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Metaphysical fiction, wish fulfillment, Feel good, positive, heroine saves the day, Chaos and order, communication, facing darkness, Strong female lead, World War II, Los Angeles, California, Hollywood, Cursed movie, movie memorabilia, Faith vs. doubt, changing history, Time travel
Publisher: Turquoise Sunset Publishing
Published: 2021-12-23T00:00:00+00:00

Tam and I go down into the cellar. He says the foundation is closest to the timeline break and the best place to talk to time.

I haven’t used the cellar since I moved in. It has the musty odor of disuse. The old wooden stairs creak painfully as we descend. A naked bulb yellowed with age illuminates the room with a shuddering light. Boxes left by my cousin are stacked up against the walls, untouched, abandoned.

Tam goes to the far wall and begins hauling boxes out of the way. He drops them aside with a crash, sending up a cloud of dust. But he doesn’t go too near the wall. He grabs the flaps on the last few boxes and drags them to the side.

The brick on this wall is definitely old, the mortar cracked. But there’s a drawing near the foundation. I catch my breath. The same drawing from Elias’ letter! My original interpretation was correct: it is a stylized eye that is both looking forward and backward.

Time.

A laugh tinkles in my head, a trickster’s laugh.

I look back at Tam. He’s shrunk away, sweat breaking out on his upper lip. What isn’t he telling me?

“Tam—” I say.

A thousand voices erupt all at once. It should crowd me into cacophony, but the voices flow around me like water.

And they’re all saying one word: “Elias.”

Elias?

Could he have come from the past through the leak to here?

Tam’s face is stricken, going to pale. “I’m sorry.”

“It’s true?” I say.

I don’t even have time to process this. The voices spring to life again. Wind swirls around me like it’s checking me out. I catch the perfume of spring and the decay of winter, then the wind whisks it away.

The laughter cackles again, all around me, and yet coming from nowhere. A flood of images assaults me, too many...new birth, squalling for attention...and ancient life, so old my teeth hurt...and everything in between.

The world spins. I think I’m dying.

I’m on my knees. Tears run down my face.

Tam’s—Elias’ voice breaks through to me. “Talk to it, Michelle.”

My brain is stuck. I say the only thing I can think of: “Stop it! Stop it!”

And I’m hitting the floor with my fists, the pain clearing my thoughts. I remember Tam—Elias—saying time was vindictive.

“You want revenge?”

I almost say that it’s had two hundred years of revenge. But this is time, and time is ancient. Two hundred years is probably like a single drop in an ocean. It won’t understand. I have this vision of being stuck here in this bubble for the rest of my life. I resent it. I’ve had to avoid people because I was born into the wrong family.

My outrage boils free. What is time going to do to me that everyone else hasn’t?

“How dare you? I have no life because of you. I can’t even get a newspaper like a normal person! This place is a nothing town, because of you, just so you can have entertainment.”

The laughter spins around me, waiting for me to join in the joke.

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