Professor Figwort Comes to an Understanding

by Jacob Edwards

Release: September 2010
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

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.

DEBUT

“Professor Figwort Comes to an Understanding,” in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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Groupings

Timelines: Stories Inspired by H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine (anthology)

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY: We haven’t yet mapped out the time travel itinerary.