Time Travel

The First Barbecue Was Sixty-Six Million Years Early “Do not touch anything outside the blue housing.” Marty Pritchard had both arms inside the blue housing. “That instruction would’ve been more useful about forty seconds ago.” Dr. Nora Bell stood behind him with the rigid posture of someone watching a toddler repair a nuclear submarine. “Your…

Malcolm “Mack” Mercer burst out of a blue-white distortion shouting, “Far out, baby, the future has arrived,” struck a wet bedsheet at chest height, and carried three more sheets into a muddy drainage ditch behind the Wicket House boardinghouse. The future lay facedown beneath him, humming inside a silver case. Mack pushed a pillowcase off…