Watchmaker apprentice Maxwell Smith is hurled by an explosion from 1908 London to a dystopian 2008.
But that’s the thing, Miss Brown, don’t you see? I did not vanish from the face of the Earth, I merely vanished from time.

Variants

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  1. “The Time Traveller Smith” by JC McLaughlin (Smashwords, April 2010).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by JC McLaughlin