Time Split
Time Split – Chapter Four
“There, that’s done.” Sarah Taylor wiped her hands on her trousers, then immediately regretted the unconscious action.
She looked down. “Damn!” She closed her eyes, shook her head in annoyance, then sighed. The dusty marks weren’t a tragedy; it was nearly time to leave in any case.
She had been filing all afternoon and was relieved the task was complete. The Town Hall basement gave her the creeps at the best of times, but late on a Friday, when the building was virtually empty, the feeling of being ‘watched’ intensified.
She checked the time. There were a few more things she needed to do before going home. If she hurried, she could still beat the traffic out of Morpeth.
She moved towards the stairs, but had only closed half the gap before suddenly the basement was plunged into darkness.
Time Split – Chapter Three
Jason’s research changed direction, but it still took several months before he finally felt he fully understood the new system.
The physics of it seemed as though the machine behaved towards time as if the subject were a heavy ball in the centre of a rubber diaphragm. The energy required for a traveller to be sent through time was the same as if the ball were being propelled from the centre of the diaphragm towards the outer edge. The greater the energy input, the further from the point of initiation the traveller could go. Alternatively a shorter distance could be achieved, but with the same amount of energy the traveller could stay for longer periods away from their own time. Once all the energy was consumed, as with the ball on the diaphragm, the traveller would automatically return to their initial point in time.
Time Split – Chapter Two
Briggs was lucky he’d been out for the day when the city was bombed. A drive to Rothbury had taken him away from his city centre luxury apartment and he’d only been travelling home for a short while when the attack took place.
Initially, he’d thought his car had developed a fault when the engine cut out, until he found himself diving for cover below the dash. Animal instinct, fine-tuned through years of front line battle experience, had sensed rather than seen the blinding light of the atomic bomb, detonated over the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, twenty miles away.
Time Split – Chapter One
Jessica Hudson was initially attracted to her husband’s boyish good looks and childlike charm when they were both lecturing at the same university.
His speciality, physics, and hers, maths, overlapped on calculus and late one evening, whilst discussing their approaches to teaching, Jason asked her out.
She’d been reluctant at first. At twenty-eight she was two years his senior, she felt this a little taboo; also, his laid-back, casual attitude, reflected in his attire, bore no comparison to her usual dates. She was used to more formal men and found his ‘relaxed’ manner of dress slightly unappealing. Still, there was no denying he was gorgeous, no matter what, and after some deliberating she agreed.
He’d had a paper published in a scientific journal some time ago, which Jessica had read before they’d even met. It outlined the conversion of matter into a plasma signature and despite his confidence that teleportation was possible, she’d always felt it was based on flights of fancy – that was, until the evening of their first date.
Time Split – Prologue
40 minutes into the war most of the northern hemisphere was destroyed. A cycle of annihilation, which once started became impossible to stop.
Time Split
A scientist attempts to use a time machine to save his mother’s life by altering her past, but when he returns to his own time zone he realises his ‘harmless tinkering’ has had a catastrophic effect. In a world stripped of its civility he strives to identify the cause of the split. However, when his struggle to correct the time line turns into a fight for his life and a race against evil, he is forced to question his own humanity.
