Time Zone

Tales of Space and Time

Mark R. Sneller

5.5 x 8.5, 284 pg, soft cover

ISBN 0-9741131-4-X

Price $16.00

Some stories and an excerpt from Time Zone

The Optimist: Two men share views on the world – A complete story in less than 55 words

The Pirate: Having one bad eye was the least of his problems – A complete story in less than 55 words

Bright Moon: An unknown being becomes lost in an unknown universe

Camp Counselor: A man returns from a trip to the stars and brings back a surprise for his campers

The White Bird: A future genius tries to find the beginning of everything

Sports Director: Athletics and politics compete in humanity’s last stand

On Synchronized Swimming: An athlete finds that pain can have sweet rewards (Society of Southwestern Authors Humor Award, annual short story contest, 2002)

Split Times: Where the past meets the future, simultaneously

Telepathy School: Your basic telepathy school isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Complications: A mental patient takes on the aliens who find that things aren’t as simple as they first believed

From Camp Counselor

Marty took a draw on his pipe. “If these unique compact units of energy, such as our unnamed being, were perhaps freaks created during creation. If they had been human, they might have wondered why the management of time wasn’t handed over to some woman more efficient than Miss Fickle Fate. For surely, to travel thusly, waiting through time unmeasured for a world to land upon and to fulfill its misbegotten destiny, gave the meaningless nature of death a meaning. What could be crueler than to have survived a journey across the void, only to cease existence because of some inherent universal randomness and indifference? Would there be then any difference between life and death?”

 

 

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