Good Golly, Miss Molly
by Steven Bryan Bieler
When Dr. Demented Physicist Particle Breakdown bets his entire life savings on a horse
race and the campus’s best handicapper picks Miss Molly instead, the good Dr. Breakdown
has no choice but to further handicap Miss Molly.
Locating his car, Dr. Breakdown extracted from the trunk a Phillips-head screwdriver, a
toothbrush, his spare tire, five felt pens, and a plumber’s helper. With these
materials he constructed a duplicate of the time machine in the university physics lab.
“Good Golly, Miss Molly” by Steven Bryan Bieler, in
Asimov’s Science Fiction, November 1982.