By chance, fourteen-year-old Toby Cobb gets in the path of time-traveler John Asher who’s headed to save an important woman from the great San Francisco earthquake. As a result, both of them end up trapped in a wasteland.
You can’t change history, dude. Known fact. You can’t mess with things. Create paradoxes. You could much everything up so you don’t even exist, like in Back to the Future. And, like, every time travel story known to man. You shouldn’t even be telling me this.

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  1. “Excess Baggage” by Carol Davis, in The Time Travel Chronicles, edited by Crystal Watanabe (Windrift Books, 2 November 2015).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Carol Davis