Time Machine Administration: Incentives for Retrieval Artists

by Mark Clay Grove

The retention of Retrieval Artists is a serious problem in the 26th century. They're asking for more benefits and management is concerned that they might organize into a labor union, sooner rather than later. Meanwhile, a lot of ordinary people are asking for access to The Dawes Conglomerate's Time Machine to retrieve familial artifacts downstream in the Timeline. But the strongest pressure to open up access to time travel is coming from organized academia. Professors want answers to their long-held theories and fresh artifacts to either expand their fields of knowledge or to begin altogether new fields. What's a Corporate Emperor to do?

11 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2024

About the author

Writing fiction is Mark Clay Grove's final professional incarnation, but for assurance he maintains a day job as an appraiser. Always an avid reader, restless writer, and a reasonable gentleman with dual nationality (US/UK), he strives for perfection and insists on living by a code of honor that values integrity, fidelity, and fairness for all. Mark divides his time between homes in Fairfax and Charlottesville, Virginia, with his Peruvian wife, Chany.

What I read: Anything that does NOT have explicit sex and streams of foul language. Why? Because it's repugnant.