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    Rerun

    By Connor G. Madison

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    Have you ever wanted to go back in time, with all the knowledge and experience you have now. You know you have, so don't lie to me. Go back and do things just a little differently, with what you know about the future.

    A John Abernathy Adventure

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherConnor G. Madison
    Release dateJan 5, 2012
    ISBN9781465887535
    Rerun
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    Connor G. Madison

    Connor was raised on the southwest side of Chicago. His parents lived the American dream, a nice house on a nice street back when people treated each other decently. Back when children could play outside without fear. Connor grew up reading everything, fiction, non-fiction, science fiction, everything. As he grew up, he found he loved science. He also loved science fiction, all the greats of past decades. Heinlein, Reynolds, Dickson, Drake, Azimov were his champions of his youth on into adult life. Today, Connor writes science fiction for his own amusement. Yet he wondered if people would like to read what he writes. So he is delving into the eBook arena with a few of his musings. So have fun reading, he had fun write them.

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      Rerun - Connor G. Madison

      Chapter 1

      Have you ever wanted to go back in time, with all the knowledge and experience you have now. You know you have, so don't lie to me. Go back and do things just a little differently, with what you know about the future. I have and the opportunity to do just that became a possibility for me. I don't know why they picked me I was no one special. Maybe it was…no, it couldn't have been that.

      I was sixty-five years old when a company where I was applying for a job made the offer. It was on the third interview, a man I hadn't met before was sitting across the table from me, telling me about what the company does and what they could do for me. The door opened and a strikingly beautiful woman entered. She nodded to Stan, the person I was talking to, and sat down at the table. Stan nodded to her.

      Mr. Abernathy, John, may I call you John, I am Lisa Hardesty. I am the head of a new, hush-hush project here at Quantum Industries and after reading your resume I thought you would be a perfect fit for my project.

      Really? I asked.

      Stan, if you would excuse us, Lisa said.

      Stan nodded gathering his papers, stood and left the room. Lisa rose stepping to the door and pressed a series of buttons on the panel next to the door. The door buzzed and I heard the deadbolt lock slide home.

      There, now we can talk freely, but first I need you to sign this non-disclosure agreement, she said sliding a half inch thick bound booklet toward me.

      Uh, what's this all about Miss Hardesty?

      You can call me Lisa, John. Have you ever wanted to go back in time with all that you know now?

      I opened the booklet to the last page, took the pen from Lisa and signed. The rest is history. No, I really mean that, it is history. Once I had signed the non-disclosure form, Lisa explained what I would be doing. If I agreed to do this, my body would be cared for while I was back in time, so if I happened to return I would have a body to which to return.

      We went through everything that would happen. I would be given time to say good-bye to my family and get my affairs in order. My wife had died just the past year, so there was nothing for me in that regard. I have been estranged from the rest my family for quite some time and any friends I had wouldn't really miss me. My only regret would be my grandchildren but by going back in time, all that may change. As I was not planning to do anything the same, when I got back, if I got back to the time they planned to send me.

      Lisa explained to me that they had already successfully sent someone back ten years. Ten minutes after leaving, he walked into the company headquarters asking to see Lisa. He was being examined somewhere back in the bowels of the building. Lisa explained to me that they had not yet perfected the technique to return from the past, that's why they were looking for older people. They wanted to send us as far back as they felt possible. They were going to sent me back forty years or so. The machine was not that exact. There was a window of plus or minus five to ten years.

      I was happy to go back and relive my life. It hadn't been a bad life, but there are some changes, I would like to try, if I could. Just try, you understand.

      Chapter 2

      A week later, I was lying on a soft gel mattress in a chamber on a sub-level of the building. The apparatus for the time jump filled the room. Every dish-like structure pointed at me in the middle. There must have been a couple of hundred.

      John, are you ready? Lisa asked through the intercom.

      I gave her the thumbs up sign, as I was not sure how my voice would be. To say the least I was a little scared. Lisa nodded at me from the control booth high up on the wall of the room. Did I say the room was huge? Four stories tall and a perfect cube, forty feet on a side with me on a pedestal smack dab in the middle.

      A series of lights started to flash. Around and around the lights went all the while a high-pitched hum whined into the inaudible. There was a brilliant flash and it was pitch black for a moment. It took a second for my eyes to adjust to the change in lighting. I was behind the wheel of a car in the middle of the night. The car was accelerating quickly down a dark stretch of highway with guardrails on both sides. Another car was alongside me; reflexively I jerked the wheel to the right. The car I was driving crashed through the guardrail and flipped into the air, landing on the roof in the water of the slough.

      I knew exactly where I was in the brief moment before things went dark and I died.

      I woke, startled out of my mind. I sat up looking around. I was still in the time chamber, but the mattress I was on was lowered and several people stood around me with their mouths open.

      John, what happened?

      I died, I said quietly. Lisa, I died.

      What?

      Wrong time, wrong place, I woke driving a car at night way out in the forest preserves. I was racing another car, something I did a lot in my misspent youth. I was so startled that I crashed and drowned. It must have reversed any changes to the timeline. Hoist me back up and do it again, same time-period. I'll be prepared for what's coming now if you hit the same place and time.

      No, no, get up from there we must study this more. We can't just…

      Lisa, I want to do this.

      I know, I know, give us a week. Please? Lisa asked her eyes big with sadness. Just a week I promise.

      I nodded flipping my legs over the edge of the mattress, hopping down to the floor. Several nurses

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