Time Bent Anthology

<p><strong>A different take on time travel. </strong></p><p>What if the "grandfather murder conundrum" didn't exist? Where you could freely travel in time without affecting your or anyone else's present?</p><p>The trick is that this also tends to "haunt" you even drive you insane...</p><p><em>This anthology contains:</em></p><p>Time Bent by S. H. Marpel<br />A World Gone Reverse by J. R. Kruze S. H. Marpel<br />A Very Thin Line by S. H. Marpel</p><p>- - - -</p><p><strong>Time Bent:</strong></p><p><em>TIME HAUNTED HER. IT</em> didn't do what it was "supposed to" when she was around.</p><p>It ran forward backwards sideways. Sometimes time helped her solve her problems sometimes it made them worse.</p><p>For a lovely young woman you'd think there would be young men lined up to talk to her at any gathering. But she stayed away from them – perhaps to protect them from what was "haunting" her.</p><p>Two Ghost Hunters came to help her solve it. But she left with only the promise of returning "just in time" - and didn't</p><p>Or was this time-problem contagious? Were other people at risk because of her - or could she pass it onto her children?</p><p>Life didn't seem any more safe just because you could bend time any way you wanted.</p><p><strong>A World Gone Reverse:</strong></p><p>When the hamburgers all disappeared along with the buns I was warming I thought I was seeing things.</p><p>But when my spatula went through the cast-iron grill top - I had to let it go out of reflex. No way was I going after it - I'd been burned too many times.</p><p>It wasn't like I had a choice after that. Because the grill itself dropped out through the bottom of the rolling coach we were cooking out of that summer.</p><p>I looked up at Hami my order-taker business partner and lover - only to see her fall through the floor as well. A look of shock and trying to say something but frozen in time.</p><p>Then the coach disappeared and I fell with it - but only as far as the pavement it used to be parked on. I could see the asphalt beneath my feet at least.</p><p>Until it turned to some sort of foamy waves lapping on a beach I'd never seen before. Green hard sand. Green water.</p><p>And a long white line that went down this beach like it was some sort of dual-lane highway going nowhere...</p><p><strong>A Very Thin Line:</strong></p><p>I was walking in my pasture one sunny afternoon when a pair of hands pulled me into the underworld.</p><p>Once I arrived I relaxed - a bit. Because it was an old friend. Carol. A time-bender and now a Lazurai as well. Meaning she could walk through rock - and other things.</p><p>"Hi John. How have you been?" Carol was standing in front of a crystal fire place warming herself from the magma heat that was channeled out of the earth's core.</p><p>"Not bad Carol. Other than being pulled deep into the earth without a simple request or how-de-do."</p><p>"Sorry about that. Really. But I need your help - because I'm worse than haunted now - I'm being hunted."</p><p>"And I'm the only one who can help you?"</p><p>She smiled embarrassed and shrugged. "Yeah that about sums it up - other than how many people are after me..."</p><p>- - - -</p><p><strong>Scroll Up and Get Your Copy Now</strong></p>