Three Days to Never by Tim Powers

Author:Tim Powers
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 0380798379
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Published: 2009-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

The old man in the bedroom shivered in sudden comprehension—if Grammar’s makeshift incendiary device had worked, he would have been jumping straight into the middle of an inferno, at noon on Sunday, instead of just into a heady reek of gasoline fumes. Even the fumes had made him scramble out of the shed as fast as he could.

“Poor old Grammar,” said Daphne. “I wonder what was going on.”

“I think we’ve got to figure out what was going on, before somebody else tries to shoot me.”

“Let’s go look at the shed,” said Daphne, her voice moving away from the window.

Old Marrity swung his legs off the bed. In both his previous lifetimes he had eventually dug up the gold wire, and in horrible Life B he had sold his trailer to get gold wire to replace it and rewire the time machine, but he couldn’t let them disassemble it now—they might just wreck it, and if the machine was gone, could he still have jumped back here? He couldn’t figure out the logic of it, but he didn’t want them fooling with the machine.

“Wait!” he shouted, limping toward the bedroom door.

He hobbled past the washing machine and wrenched at the dead bolt on the back door; finally he got it back and pushed the door open, squinting at the bright sunlight in the yard. It occurred to him that he hadn’t shaved in two days, and his jowls must be bristling with white stubble.

Daphne and his younger self were standing in the weedy yard gaping back at him.

“Wait,” he said again. And then he took a deep breath, not having any idea what he could say next.

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