An aging English professor has had it once and for all with the young Professor Cranchberger, so he borrows his brother’s time machine to disprove the upstart’s ridiculous theory that Edward De Vere wrote Shakespeare’s plays.
It’s at times like this when I have to either sell my soul to the Devil or go see my brother Francis. I chose the latter because he was closer. He worked at the same university, just across campus, in the Physics Department. I walked into his office and said without any formalities, “I want to borrow your time machine.”

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  1. “Sweep Me to My Revenge!” by Darrell Schweitzer, in Talebones, Summer 2007.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Darrell Schweitzer