... first time shifts as he leans against a tree in a Luxembourg forest. He has fallen behind the others and has little will to continue. He swings through the extremes of his life: the violet light of death, the red light of pre-birth. Then he is a small boy being thrown into the deep end of the YMCA swimming pool by his father, a proponent of the "sink or swim" method. He time-travels to 1965. Billy ... ' flying saucer in an hour. Billy gets out of bed by the light of a full moon and wanders down the hallway and into his daughter's empty bedroom. The phone rings, and Billy hears the voice ...

• Word Count: 5323
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

... clumsy and slow as Billy, he imagines himself and the two scouts as fast friends. In his head he refers to them and himself as the Three Musketeers, and tells himself the story of how the Three Musketeers saved the life of a dumb college kid. Straggling behind the others, Billy becomes unstuck in time. He goes back to the red light of pre-birth and then forward again to a day in ... his childhood with his father at the YMCA. His father tries to teach him how to ... . She makes Billy feel worse just by being there. Billy leaps back in time to the POW camp. A British colonel talks to Derb...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School