Ian Randal Strock

writer
Short Story

How I Won the Lottery, Broke the Time Barrier (or is that Broke the Time Barrier, Won the Lottery), and Still Wound Up Broke

A lowly lab assistant receives a message from his future self with the winning lottery numbers.
Tomorrow’s Lotto drawing is for forty-five million dollars. The winning numbers will be 17, 19, 30, 32, 42, and 51.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Get Me to the Job on Time

A man tells the story of his coworker who had a rather mundane use for his discovery of time travel.
Wally didn’t need to see the pyramids getting built, or sail with Columbus, or even watch JFK’s assassination. What Wally wanted to do, more than anything, was get to work on time.
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  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

It’s Not ‘The Lady or the Tiger’, It’s ‘Which Tiger?’

When searching for a long-lost ancestor (possibly depressed) whose actions literally gave you a good life, a time traveler would be well advised to frequent said ancestor’s watering holes.
I came back to offer you comfort, love, happiness, a life of ease.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Ant and the Grasshoppers

When the narrator realizes that Earth is about to be destroyed by an asteroid, he sends the whole planet back in time ten years.
If only I had never known, I could have been happier.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel