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Matthew Claxton

All the Turns of the Earth

Published Sep 2, 2020 · 2,434 words (9 minutes) · 562 views

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Time loses its grasp on people, misplaces them…

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Even though it was cloudy, I decided to give it a try. Launch was delayed a bit due to lightning in the area. The picture was taken a my campsite at River Ranch Fl. Figured a long exposure to add some star trails.

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Stephen Dedman

Down to the Tethys Sea

Published Aug 27, 2020 · 5,304 words (20 minutes) · 67 views

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A research team in the Devonian must deal with an unexpected danger.

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It has always been a dream to travel to Micronesia, but it’s a whole other story to get the opportunity to go, and dive the biggest graveyard of WWII ships in the world.

The place I am speaking of is Chuck Lagoon of the Federated States of Micronesia, located about 1,000km south east from Guam on the Pacific Ocean.

This is the remains of one of the merchant ships that sunk during Operation Hailstorm that took place in 1944.

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James Van Pelt

Floaters

Published Aug 20, 2020 · 7,979 words (30 minutes) · 252 views

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What if you traveled into the future, and the world was completely destroyed? Wouldn't you do anything to change our fate? Would there be anything you'd be unwilling to sacrifice?

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C. L. Werner

The Lost Blitzkrieg

Published Aug 16, 2020 · 7,481 words (28 minutes) · 1 like · 250 views

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During the 1940 invasion of France, a reconnaissance group from Rommel's 7th Panzer Division finds more than they bargained for in the village of Anjou. Strange science now pits them against enemies from the primordial past. A story written in the style of the classic pulps.

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RS Benedict

Morbier

Published Jul 26, 2020 · 4,619 words (17 minutes) · 9 likes · 868 views

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Mara has no past, no social security number, and no birth certificate. The doctors call it trauma. Mara calls it time travel.

Author RS Benedict’s work has appeared in F&SF, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up To No Good. She holds an MA in linguistics, and taught ESL in China for several years before returning to New York.

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James Van Pelt

Where and When

Published Jul 10, 2020 · 6,847 words (25 minutes) · 1 like · 329 views

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The classic time travel paradox suggests that trips to the past are impossible because any change to the past will change the future where the time travel machine is invented, causing the future that sent the machine to the past to not exist, thereby not changing the future (and so on forever). But there are places in the past where one can travel that by their nature are insulated from the future. Time travel is possible!

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Daniel Roy

Schrödinger's Suicide

Published Jun 29, 2020 · 7,571 words (28 minutes) · 1 like · 307 views

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An elite soldier's battle-weary soul is tested when he must travel back in time and carry out a retaliatory strike for an attack that has yet to happen.

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Kurt Pankau

Application For Temporal Readjustment

Published Jun 21, 2020 · 519 words (2 minutes) · 2 likes · 302 views

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Ms. Tapper would like to change her past. This was a more experimental flash of mine. Looking at it now, I get what doesn't work about it, but I still like it.

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