Out of Time
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Mack's just trying to survive high school. Not being able to decide on a college major, being a good best friend, and hiding from her always-disappointed mother are all time-consuming enough... and she thinks she's finally gotten a handle on things. But when she and her friends find a pirate ship in the middle of a landlocked lakeshore, things really start to go off the rails: her best friend's little brother professes his undying love and then mysteriously runs away; Mack gets shade from the entire town for being the babysitter-on-duty when it happened; her best friend stops talking to her, and Mack's parents force her into therapy to "talk about it" before she leaves for college... and *right* as the freedom of adulthood is within her reach, one of the souvenirs from the pirate ship starts acting weird and strands her *in the future*!
Now, she's stuck helping to recover displaced artifacts from up and down the timeline, putting them all back before paradoxes rip the universe apart... She liked history, but she never thought she'd be living it!
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I started writing this story in 2015. This is the first time I've dug back into it in about five years, really, so I know it needs a lot of updating in the "modern" scenes. (I'm catching some pre-#metoo mentality, and the lingo doesn't fit, etc. Don't worry, I won't be offended if you flag things like that that you notice, since I know it needs work!) Thanks in advance for any comments, as I thrive on feedback and am desperate to finish telling Mack's story (or, really, begin! lol)...
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