When Dr. Demented Physicist Particle Breakdown bets his entire life savings on a horse race and the campus’s best handicapper picks Miss Molly instead, the good Dr. Breakdown has no choice but to further handicap Miss Molly.
Locating his car, Dr. Breakdown extracted from the trunk a Phillips-head screwdriver, a toothbrush, his spare tire, five felt pens, and a plumber’s helper. With these materials he constructed a duplicate of the time machine in the university physics lab.

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  1. “Good Golly, Miss Molly” by Steven Bryan Bieler, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, November 1982.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Steven Bryan Bieler