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Freddie again opted for the direct approach.  “Hello, there.” Doug spun around, pointing a death ray at them. The weapon was brightly colored and elegant, but nevertheless a death ray.  Due to the fact that Doug was pointing this surely hostile device at him, it took Dan three full seconds

July 20 is National Lollipop Day. In prehistoric times, cavemen collected honey from beehives using a stick, thus creating the first lollipop.  Ancient Chinese, Egyptians, and Arabs glazed fruit and nuts with honey and inserted sticks into the confection for eating.  In the 17th century Europeans boiled sugar candy and

There are rules about such things.  Under normal circumstances, there is no possibility the timestream will let you jump into your own lifetime.  In your own lifetime, being able to conceivably meet yourself never could happen.  Your own lifetime to where and when you were having lunch would be infinitely

Looking up, they saw a huge spaceship descending on the clearing, its rocket boosters scorching the grass.  Dan and Freddie looked at each other and hightailed it into the trees.  They could feel the heat behind them, so they ran until they couldn’t. When the roaring stopped, they turned.

Chantell ran her hand across a huge console in a room full of machinery and other huge consoles.  She adjusted some numbers, typed in more data, then stepped into a chamber—and disappeared, only to reappear seconds later. “Well that was interesting.”

Why were the people gone?  Surely not for no reason.  People don’t abandon a perfectly good city for no reason.  Well sure, maybe the city wasn’t perfectlygood.  The height of the buildings compared to the width of the streets suggested traffic was a nightmare—unless there were flying

The next day Dan followed housekeeping again and was making good progress at cleaning up the mess Bob left behind.  He realized he was cheating himself out of tips by fixing things before they were called in, but he didn’t figure he’d be here for long. Still, he