Annie and the Wolves
- by Andromeda Romano-Lax
- Novel
- Fantasy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Annie and the Wolves” by Andromeda Romano-Lax (Soho, February 2021).
Historical research Ruth McClintock and local high school student Reece have a journal written by Annie Oakley, from which they conclude that Annie was a time traveler to traumatic moments in her own life—a power that Ruth seems to share.
—Michael Main
Reece, it isn’t just clarvoyance or neurosis, either.
She’d tell him in person, the thing they should have come out and admitted from the start.
It’s time travel.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: some of Annie’s time travel
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: Annie’s later life
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Ruth
- Timeline Models
- Resilient Timeline: “Yet, things had ended up in the same place.”
- Sensing Unfamiliar Timelines: Ruth remembers an original timeline where Kennidy died at seventeen instead of nineteen.
- Time Travel Methods
- Emotional Outcries through Time: Both Annie and Ruth are drawn to moments of trauma.
- Themes
- Precognition, Premonition, or Prediction: for example, Ruth’s premonition that Scott will be hurt
- Save JFK!: Annie tries to save McKinley.
- Save “Lois”!: Ruth tries to save Kennidy.
- Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts: “Time-traveling back had sent damaging publses through her brain. She moved . . . saw . . . heard . . . felt like a stroke victim.”
- Travels into Yourself: Some of Annie and Ruth’s travel seems to be into their own bodies, although other travel is definitely not.
- Viewing the Past: Some of the milder episodes appear to be visions of the past more so than actual time travel.
- Real-World Tags
- Annie Oakley
- Josef Breuer
- Leon Czolgosz: Annie writes to Czolgosz.
- Sitting Bull
- William McKinley: McKinley is not in the story, but Annie tries to save him.
Variants
(2)
- “Annie and the Wolves” by Andromeda Romano-Lax (Soho, February 2021).
- audio reading.
“Annie and the Wolves” by Andromeda Romano-Lax (HighBridge Audio, February 2021).