Tiem Mechine by Alex Hansen

Author:Alex Hansen [Hansen, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-08-18T22:00:00+00:00

(11)

I unlocked the door to our apartment to the sound of Travis’s preaching.

“You’re wasting too much thought and energy on the past,” he pointed out. “And I don’t mean just the Amy thing, I mean in general. You get a time machine—do you travel to the future? Nope! The past. Multiple times. And the other versions of you do the same thing. The past is important, sure, but you can’t give yourself a decent future if you’re too busy looking backwards.”

“That is so profound,” I said. “I’m going to make that into a cross stitch. Then I’m going to frame it and hang it on the wall by the front door so I never ever forget it.”

“I didn’t know you could cross stitch,” he said. I shot him a glare and he continued, “If you head into something new still looking backwards, you’ll…well, you’ll bump into shit. A stubbed toe is almost guaranteed and you might even roll your ankle. Metaphorically speaking.”

“I’ll just have to wear metaphorical steel toe boots with metaphorical ankle support then,” I responded dryly.

He rewarded me with a little chuckle. “Nice. But look, the point I’m trying to make here is that you’re never going to move past Amy if you keep comparing her to every girl you meet.”

I sighed, setting my keys and the time device on the kitchen table and heading into the living room. “Why is there something so wrong with having standards?”

“There isn’t,” Travis insisted, following me. “Standards are good. But the standard shouldn’t be just…Amy. You can decide not to date drug addicts or to only date blondes or to only go out with chicks who have tattoos, but you can’t just decide not to date anyone who isn’t Amy.”

“But Amy is who I want,” I said, sitting heavily on the couch.

“Well, that’s probably not true. You just think you want her because you were used to having her. But it doesn’t matter, because you can’t have Amy.”

“Thanks,” I said with a wry smile. “That was a grade-A pep talk. Right up there with ‘win one for the Gipper’ and the President’s speech from Independence Day.”

“No, fuckhead, that’s not what I meant,” he said earnestly. “As much as you want Amy, or as much as you want to clone Amy and keep the copy, you can’t. So you might as well set some different expectations, because when you try them out, you might find that they’re pretty damn good. Better, even.”

“Holy shit,” I whispered.

“Finally, after an hour of this, I get through to him,” Travis said, rolling his eyes.

“No, not that,” I said. The genius of the idea forming in my head was so exciting that my fingers were actually trembling. “Make a copy. That’s how I can do it.”

“Kenny, dude, please do not tell me that you bought a cloning machine from that alien guy,” he said sternly.

“No, I’m not talking about cloning Amy,” I said. “I’m talking about making a copy of the time machine.”

“Yeah, just stick it in

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