Another Time

Torn between two people -- the woman he married one summer after a very brief courtship and the troubled male student who lusted after him for years. Some might call Jacob’s feelings selfish. But he knew three things for certain. He truly loved them both, they all loved one another, and the two of them were taken from him and this world much too soon.<br><br>Science fiction has claimed for decades there is a way to manipulate the years, the days, the hours to our whim. Jacob, left alone with so much of his life ahead of him, becomes obsessed with figuring out how. Even if he can change the laws of time, he isn’t certain past events can be reversed and, if they can, what it might mean in terms of being with either one of the two who captured his heart, now or in some other realm.<br><br>Can Jacob recapture any of the time he lost with either Wendy or Rory? Or is it possible he might somehow find both the man and the woman he loves again in another time?

E.F. Mulder · Urbano

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23 Chs

Chapter 19

“Stop!” Jacob shoved him hard. It nearly killed him to push Rory away. “Another time,” he said. “Another time…”

The bathroom door banged hard against the tile wall, and Jacob bolted out, to go ask his wife to marry him. He turned, for one last glance, in case he still had to remember Rory from that final moment. “Come back to me. The war’s gonna end…by 1975. The years go by fast. Take my word for that, Rory, if nothing else. Fight hard to stay alive. Fight hard for us.”

* * * *

Once Jacob returned to June of 2020, the first thing he did was check the table. Rory’s obituary was gone. “Thank God.” He collapsed into the old, wooden chair in front of him and waited a minute—for what, he wasn’t sure. Maybe for Rory to come up from the basement or out of the bedroom, maybe for Wendy to still be alive, because what he had just done in the past, maybe, just maybe, it created a miracle.

None of that happened. He was still alone.

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