I’ll be giving a shout out to Tick Tock: A Stitch In Crime anthology each week this March, and here’s my second Featured Author, Tara Tyler and her story, Reset.
My Review: Reset is a time travel story in which an old man finds a young girl with the “energy” necessary to propel him back in time. He’s waited for years to make this journey and change an event that forever altered his life and the life of everyone in his family. A well-told story with an unexpected end that you’ll think about for a while. Perhaps the past should remain exactly that.
Now here’s Tara.
Remember in English class when the teacher asked you what the theme of a book was? I used to dread that!
When I write a story, I don’t usually have a theme in mind. Then when it’s written and I have to talk about it, I realize there was one hidden in it all along! And though RESET is a short story, it has three themes:
Here’s the snapshot of RESET:
Twelve-year-old Casey has no time for her quirky family.
Mr. Zander has been searching for the perfect specimen to save his.
When Casey walks into Mr. Zander’s clock repair shop, he sees her as a prime contender and coerces her to help him. Hopefully, the machine will work this time.
I’m excited to read the rest of the stories in the TICK TOCK, A STITCH IN CRIME anthology. Thanks for having me over, Lee. Always a treat to be featured here!
About the Author:
Tara Tyler is a math teacher who writes to share her passion for a good story with others. She loves dogs, coffee, and is the lazy housewife, living in a world of boys with three sons and a coach husband. Join her for an adventure!
Pop Travel. Simulation
Book One. Book Two
DISPOSAL
Book Three! – Latest Release
@TaraTylerTalks. TaraTylerAuthor on FB . Tara Tyler Talks
I love time travel stories, don’t you? Here’s a T/F Quiz about other stories with this theme.
1. The classic tale, The Time Machine, was written in 1930.
2. A Wrinkle in Time caused a bidding war among publishers when L’Engle submitted it.
3. It was Scott Turow’s endorsement of The Time Traveler’s Wife on The Today Show that kickstarted that book’s climb up the charts.
Answers to last week’s quiz about matching authors with their stories written with multiple points of view.
A. My Sisters Keeper- G. Jodi Picou |
A. My Sisters Keeper- G. Jodi Picoult |
E. William Faulkner |
B. Poisonwood Bible- H. Barbara Kingsolver |
F. Margaret Atwood |
C. The Sound and the Fury-E. William Faulkner |
G. Jodi Picoult |
D. The Robber Bride-F. Margaret Atwood |
H. Barbara Kingsolver |
Quote of the Week: “Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.” Stephen Hawking