TIMING IS EVERYTHING...

The music from An iPod blasts through Mark’s ears. On his chest, the pages of an SAT book lay open to the English section. 

His head bops to the music and out of the corner of his eye a blue pinprick of light flickers.

He glances up and sees a strange girl with her back to him, rummaging through the papers on his desk. 

Mark Jumps off the bed and takes out the earbuds.

Am I hallucinating? She looks like an escapee from a Halloween party…but it’s November! Man is she gorgeous.

“Uh, who are you?” Mark asks.

She turns around and tosses her knee length, blonde braids behind her. The medieval, tight fitted dress scrapes the floor. She flashes a toothpaste smile at Mark.

“My name is Miranda.”

She’s gotta be a friend of my sister, Kate. Who else but of friend of hers would be in the house.

Miranda turns back around and continues to filter through the papers.

“Why are you doing that?” Mark asks.

“I am only perusing your papers.” She locks her eyes on his. “Do not fret.”

Perusing? Fret? I’m shocked a friend of Kate’s would use such words.

“Hey, this is my room. I don’t know how you got in here or what you think you’re doing. But—”

“Forgive me. I did not mean to offend you.” She shrugs. “I am unfamiliar with manners here.”

“I’m not offended.” She’s gotta be some kind of actress.

“May I have permission to look around this chamber?”

“Sure.” Okay. You’re hot, I’ll play along?

Miranda sweeps around the room pointing at different objects and asks questions about them.

She picks up a pen. “May I take this back with me?”

“You want a bic? To take back where?”

“I apologize, but I must return to Bodiam Castle in England.

This girl’s looney. “Do you know my dad…he’s a psychiatrist?”

“I do not know what that is. I assure you, I have not met your father. You are the only person from this time I have met.” She studies Mark's face.

“Do you think you traveled through time?” 

“You saw me appear. Did you not?”

“I must’ve been asleep. I had to be.”

“No matter. When I leave you will see me slip back in time. If the bic is your only one, perhaps I can take a book?” She picks up a physics book. “You have so many, surely you will not miss this one.”

She fades and slowly disappears.

“Hey! Wait! That’s my physics book.”

Whoa…breathe Mark.

Will Miranda return? 

What does she seek?

Screwing up Time

by

C.M. Keller

Miranda returns, seeking a secret ingredient and a book of recipes.

Unfamiliar to what Miranda requests, Mark must help her find both or she will die.

But there is only one way…

To travel back into the past through the colors of time.

What a very cool premise. Medieval meets present day. Time travel to save a girl a teen never met before…intriguing!

This is one book that’s definitely going on MY TBR list…

Thanks Connie for writing a truly interesting premise! 

I hope everyone is still enjoying the A-Z… just seven more letters left!

Have a TERRIFIC TUESDAY!

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