Closed Temporal Cases

Time travel is real. It's for sale. And the company always collects.

In 2028, Temporal Transit Services operates from an unlisted floor of a Third Avenue tower in Manhattan. For the right price, it will send you into another decade. Read the Client Agreement carefully. Everything is billed.

In "Summer of '69," a Square Circles story, Ryan Anderson buys the trip of a lifetime: the summer of 1969, a black Dodge Charger, the moon landing on a bar television in New Orleans, and a phone that knows everything that's going to happen. His best friend, Matt Taylor, comes along to make sure he gets home. Ryan signs the contract in four minutes. Matt reads every page.

In "The Settlement," Filbert Landon doesn't buy trips. He counts what comes back from them. After six years in the company's Settlements department, he knows exactly what a dollar is worth in any year. Now his marriage is ending, his debts are coming due, and a federal agent has started asking questions. Filbert knows what the past is worth. He's about to learn what the company charges the people who work for it.

Two stories. One company. Every case closed.

For readers of Stephen King's 11/22/63 and Blake Crouch's Dark Matter, and anyone raised on The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror.