Short Story
Eighty-Three
- by Erik Wecks
- in The Time Travel Chronicles, edited by Crystal Watanabe (Windrift Books, 2 November 2015)
Starting at age thirteen, Noah jumps through his life—to his time as a kid, a college student, a movie producer, Rachel’s husband, and an old man—sometimes forward and sometimes backward, but (nearly) always landing in a prime-numbered year and never quite sure whether he’s really time traveling or, if he is, whether he’s able to change things.
If I remember right, I don’t have much time, so let me get to the point. What’s really hard to understand is whether or not you can change stuff.