Professor Figwort Comes to an Understanding
by Jacob Edwards
In a series of flashbacks over Professor Figwort’s eighty-year life, we learn of his
first love letter (the failure of which prompted his discovery of time travel) and his
three subsequent great discoveries.
It was then that he devined a solution to his new-found problems: he would travel back in
time and stop himself from disturbing Miss Bonsoir in the first place—on any level,
molecular or otherwise. Yes, that ought to do it. While he was there, he might even
return those now-overdue library books.
“Professor Figwort Comes to an Understanding” by Jacob
Edwards, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The
Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing,
September 2010).