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What goes up, must come down.
But first, there must be a way to make it go up.
The horrible device twisted both space and time by its existence alone.
Was the mind of the inventor already twisted when the device was conceived or was he a victim of his own terrible creation?
Add to the story the man who built the device. Was it driving him insane as well?
What would happen to the inventor’s wife? Was she to be caught up in a love triangle between these two men?
The final twist occurs when the device turns deadly.
Once time travel became a reality, museums had access to articles from the past in a way that no one had ever thought possible.
But collecting from those antiquities would require the utmost vigilance.
The tiniest possibility that the collection might cause a paradox must be avoided.
When an alarm indicates that a major paradox threatens to destroy the universe as we know it, only one person has even the slightest chance of repairing the damage.
Even though she is retired, Sara Michaels answers the call.
But if she is successful, what will she lose?
Once time travel became a reality, museums had access to articles from the past in a way that no one had ever believed possible.
But collecting from those antiquities would require the utmost vigilance.
The tiniest possibility that the collection might cause a paradox must be avoided.
When an alarm indicates that a major paradox threatens to destroy the universe as we know it, only one person has even the slightest chance of repairing the damage.
Even though she is retired, Sara Michaels answers the call.
But if she is successful, what will she lose?
Walt Perry awakens from a coma with the suspicion that something is very, very wrong.
He soon begins to suspect that his doctor and nurse (Dr. Phil Good and Nurse Naughty) are definitely not the Run-of-the-Mill medical staff.
After the good doctor gets half a bottle of bourbon down Walt, he divulges a very sobering fact.
Walt is DEAD.
Dr. Good and Nurse Naughty are determined to make Walt’s transition from life to the afterlife as interesting as possible.
This is a “must-read” for anyone planning on entering the afterlife.
You may not be lucky enough to have someone there to help you avoid the mistakes of not knowing how to properly be dead.
(Currently, this title is published under the name Carl England, but will be republished as a C.J. Nash title once a new cover is designed.)
This anthology is published by the Calhoun Area Writers (CAW) group. Along with many other excellent short stories and poems, two of my short stories are included. “Touch the Pig” is a short story that is written in the same universe as my novel, “The Ethics of Silence.” “Infection” is a short-short, tongue-in-cheek account of the first contact with alien star travelers.