The characters in the twenty short stories in this next Read on the Run anthology are all having trouble with time travel. Some have trouble with the equipment, some have trouble with what they find, others have to deal with unexpected consequences. Some travelers intentionally reach out to their past or future selves, others work to avoid this. Some travelers focus on the future, others focus on the past, a few look in both directions. Travelers travel by time machine, cell phone, time cap, elevator, compass, or without the need for a device at all. And then there are the mistakes made and paradoxes created when you mess around with time. Last, a story which offers a solution to all the messes that are created.
Contents: * Introduction (The Trouble with Time Travel) (2020) • essay by editors * Time Trial (2016) / short story by Liam Hogan * Round Trip (2020) / short story by Catherine Valenti * A Totally Original Idea (2020) / short story by L. L. Lamando * How to Save a Ghost (2020) / short story by V. A. Vazqeuz * Wink (2020) / short story by L. C. Burri * Temporally Out of Service (2019) / short story by Jason E. Maddux * I Only Time-Travel During School Hours (2016) / short story by Desmond Warzel * Early Balloting (2020) / short story by Brian K. Lowe * Got Time? (2018) / short story by Lee Rutty * Chronead (2011) / short story by Nyki Blatchley * Coming Back for a Drink (2020) / short story by Jonathon Mast * Peek-a-Boo (2020) / short story by Dianna Duncan * Subtle Ways Each Time (2018) / short story by Y. M. Pang * Pair O' Dons (2018) / short story by Templeton Moss * Reaching Up, Reaching Back (2018 ) / short story by Holly Schofield * The Unseen Traveler (2020) / short story by R. J. Meldrum * The Waiting Room (2020) / short story by Frank Roger * Show Me the Future (2020) / short story by Katie Kent * The Travel Agency (2020) / short story by Laurie Axinn Gienapp *The Cleanup Crew (2020) / short story by Jesse Bethea
The Read on the Run Series, published by Smoking Pen Press, consists of short story anthologies, by a variety of different authors.