First prize in our first-ever Anthology contest went to Russ Bickerstaff's entry, I Will Be A Jerk. Russ' contribution was an unusual twist on time travel stories, as you'll see in the excerpt below:
I WILL BE A JERK:
I am a jerk. Not right
now, exactly, but I will be a jerk. I figure it's probably about 20 years
from now. It's a little complicated. Roughly twenty years from now I
will be just a few feet from where I am now. Pretending to read a magazine.
Pretending not to be looking at me. I will just be sitting there being a
jerk.
When I went off to go to
college, I wasn't expecting this. Granted, it's not like there weren't warning
signs looming out ahead of me. All my life there had been indicators that I might
suffer from some kind of mental illness. It runs in the family. Dad once
thought he'd accidentally unplugged the outside world from his house. He was
perfectly cool about it for a while. Then everything disintegrated for him. A
year ago my brother claims to have seen a cluttered residential apartment of
infinite space in the complex he manages. He's still around, but he dropped out
of college to be in some weird, experimental steampunk ska band. (Make of that
what you will.) So I could have expected some kind of a schizophrenic break
with reality. I could have expected some kind of a psychotic episode or
something. If not now then maybe ten or twenty years from now. But not now
because I'm pretty sure this is different.
....
You can read the whole story, and 14 other great time travel stories, in the anthology! CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO BUY IT, and watch for an interview with Russ coming soon.
Still cheaper than a cup of coffee! And you get to keep it forever. Or until a worldwide EMP wipes out technology.
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