SWNOVELS Chapter Titles by David Griffiths
Acme Time Travel Incorporated - Volume 1
John Cullen was born in 1917 in a small coastal town on the south east of England. Diagnosed with catatonia from birth, he is unable to speak or move voluntarily. He is labelled ‘an imbecile’ by the medical community of the time. He can only silently observe as his younger brother grows up, finds love, goes to war and dies in the conflict.
In 1945, John, aged 28 years old, is given an old watch, found on the nearby grassy cliff top. It proves to be a time-travel device, mislaid by a now-dead traveller. The device’s artificial intelligence promises John that it could provide a life-long cure for John’s illness. It promises that it could change his life for the better. It agrees that its last client died whilst under its care . . . but . . . what if?
Should he take the risk of using this strange device from the future, or perhaps more pertinently, can he afford not to?
Acme Time Travel Incorporated- Volume 2
John Cullen (see volume 1), now 100 years old, has passed his old watch onto a young man named Gabriel, a shy boy with a troubled background. John says he has no further use for the watch but thinks that it may be of assistance to Gabriel. John has explained to Gabriel that the device is a time-machine, left there by accident in 1945 by a long-dead time-traveller. He says that bits of the time-machine’s functionality work, and others don’t. He thinks that it may be of use to Gabriel. Gabriel is sceptical of what John has told him, but . . .
What if it really did work
What if it really could transport you through time and space
What if it could somehow improve your confusing and lonely life