Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel by Michael Bunker & Isaac Hooke & Susan Kaye Quinn & Nick Cole & Jason Gurley & Edward W. Robertson & Irving Belateche & Christopher G. Nuttall & Jennifer Ellis & Ann Christy & MeiLin Miranda & Samuel Peralta & Eric Tozzi

Author:Michael Bunker & Isaac Hooke & Susan Kaye Quinn & Nick Cole & Jason Gurley & Edward W. Robertson & Irving Belateche & Christopher G. Nuttall & Jennifer Ellis & Ann Christy & MeiLin Miranda & Samuel Peralta & Eric Tozzi [Bunker, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: David Gatewood
Published: 2014-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

They tossed the device into the St. Mary a mile downstream from where Charlotte had drowned a timeline ago, or perhaps many timelines ago. Charlotte was safe in the hospital, recovering from her jump from the car, cleaning up. Her mother had agreed to leave Jake and come back and live with Sarah in Portland for a bit.

Paul’s hand in hers felt absolutely right. Solid, like there was no chance of time travel. Like he would never leave her.

Had it felt absolutely right before? She might never know.

Perhaps they had both become cats chasing the mice of perfect lives.

As the gunmetal waters rushed past, Sarah tried to quell the fear that moving water always wrought deep within her psyche. Memories, like water, had a way of seeping into fissures and breaking things down, dissolving the present with the floods of the past.

Perhaps it was time to try to jettison all the memories and start fresh.

The river of time had once seemed to her to be inexorable, but now it seemed filled with loops, eddies, and backwaters. Or perhaps it was more like the ocean: endless, with no clear navigable path.

The time travel devices would resurface in their lives. Somehow. She knew it, and he knew it. But for now, having the ability to change pasts and futures somehow had made the present moment, and Paul’s body next to hers, seem all that more precious.