Mateo woke up with no idea where he was, which was getting to be par for the course these days. It was dark and he was sleeping on a...

Turned out the literal first step inside the edible-looking door was towards an office to get sworn in. They prioritized that over tea,...

They pulled up at the house in the early dawn light. It had never really crossed Mateo’s mind to wonder what the Witch from Hansel and...

“So Station X is requesting they take on Smith-Ramirez,” Captain Goodacre said. “Yes.” Short leaned back. “It’s not unakin to handing a...

Mateo was starting to get used to the weird clothes. He was learning the language, too. Anybody who said the Brits back now spoke the...

Avi was stepping away from the controls, head pounding with exhaustion, when there was a whiff of humid air. It smelled damp, like...

“He wanted to ask you about valves in American computers.” “Valves?” Mateo vaguely remembered a water powered computer from ... some time...

“Turing? You showed TURING my stuff? The stuff that I wrote down about scanning cards and stuff? Alan Turing? The Alan Turing? Can you...

Where had the power come from? That was driving Avi crazy. It certainly hadn’t come from the building. It could have blacked out the...

Mateo was left in his not-really cell for a week, at least without trips to the lab. At first he thought this was Tineye’s idea of petty...

“Found anything?” Avi asked for the fifth time that week, wringing his hands. “I’ve only gotten a hundred miles out and ten years back....

Mateo sat for a moment as Nigel kept trying to figure out the Mp3 player’s circuitry, then reached out and turned the cellphone over in...

The difficulty of gleaning future information was now clear to them all. Everything Smith-Ramirez could describe was either already...

Mateo was sleeping in the lab when Tineye came in. “Wake up. We’ve songs to go over.” “Doesn’t this guy ever sleep?” he mumbled under his...

Avi was frantic. It had been over two weeks on his end since Mateo vanished. He’d told the cops everything he could and fortunately they...

It had become clear that their time traveler would be no help when it came to the intricacies of week-by-week aeroplane movements from...

Mateo stared glumly at his partly disassembled phone sitting on the lab bench like that would make it give up its secrets. He wasn’t...

They took Mateo over to the lab the next day. At least this time they told him where they were going, always nice. When he asked “Ok, why...

“...,” said Captain Short, and continued to say it for some time. Stephens had never seem him at a loss for words before. He’d been...

Smith-Ramirez looked slightly mad when the soldiers brought him in, but it was the sort of madness you saw in good soldiers on an urgent...