Anthony Corbin remembers little of his life as a young boy before being adopted by a wealthy time-traveling philanthropist who is now dead.
“But in her younger days, before she married Jonathan, she was an accomplished academic. She was a brilliant woman.” Harris stopped and cleared his throat. “She built a time machine.”

Variants

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  1. “Of Time and Treasure” by Kelly Horn, in Still Out of Time, by Janet Guy et al., Unknown Publisher, November 2014 [e-book].
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Kelly Horn