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Have you ever entertained the idea of having a friendly, intimate little afternoon tea with Genghis Khan, perhaps sharing a few shaggy-dog stories with Ptolemy, cruising up the Nile on a warm, lazy evening while running your fingers gently through Cleopatra's hair and discussing international politics with her, or delving into the finer points of comparative world religions and religious tolerance with Torquemada? Maybe...maybe you'd just like to have a go at tweaking "Schickelgruber's" schnozola or rubbing old Albert's face in the fact that he shouldn't have given up on the cosmological constant so easily, pointing out to him that he was wrong because he was right.

Well, any ordinary, everyday time traveler will tell you that one step to either side of the line, or the tiniest miscalculation will have you coming out back then or later on, dangling in airless space, trapped in a lump of granite, or stuck halfway through the wall of someone's -- or something's -- bedroom. Today is nothing more than a single slice out of the timeline and the "now" is but an infinitesimal point in that slice holding us between the future and the past by the slimmest of margins, boundaries too small for measure, too fine to see, too delicate to feel as we move through it, which brings to mind my pet theory that time doesn't exist. If that gives you trouble, try this. Measure now. Lots of luck, my friend.

The trick is, getting from here to there and back without upsetting the balance in the process and not using an infinite amount of energy to do it. The consequences of moving around in time can be disasterous, you know. Just one little mistake, anything left behind, anything taken away, the death or salvation of a single critical link in the chain and bam!, the whole timeline is screwed up and you, possibly the world itself, may or may not survive. The time you return to might be altogether different from what you remember -- the natives could be hostile, or there might be no one there at all. Who knows? You could even pop out in a parallel universe with or without a way to get back where you "belong." Join us as we explore the possibilities, but be prepared. The Twisted Tails series of books is based on the unexpected "twist" at the end that is bound to leave you bouncing around between the way-back-when, later, maybe never; the here, there, somewhere, or nowhere. Enjoy -- but beware. Our authors are masters at rug-ripping endings.

The authors of Twisted Tails II: Time on our Hands -- Volumes 1 and 2....

Eugen M. Bacon
Darrell Bain
Jeremy Davies
Ann Dulhanty
Anderson Gentry
E. Don Harpe
Christopher Hoare
Jamie A. Hughes
J. Richard Jacobs
Joyce K. Jensen
Biff Mitchell
K. L. Nappier
Marilyn Peake
Lea Schizas
Terence West
Margaret Whitley

The stories contained in Volume 1 are:

EPOCH by Terence West

THE ART OF TIME TRAVEL by Joyce K. Jensen

NEANDERTHAL NEMESIS by Darrell Bain

BUCKING THE SYSTEM by J. Richard Jacobs

A RINGKLE IN TIME by Biff Mitchell and Ann Dulhanty

THE LIBRARIAN WHO WASN'T by Lea Schizas

MUMMY IN THE ART MUSEUM by Marilyn Peake

A MAJI MAJI CHRONICLE by Eugen M. Bacon

HEART OF STONE by Jamie A. Hughes

THE EDGE by E. Don Harpe

Excerpt from a review by Beverly J. Rowe

"These two exciting books explore the concept of time, according to each writer's imagination. Does time exist as a separate dimension with a unique place and definite limits in space? How, exactly does that work?

Each of these stories has a surprise twist ending, designed to catch you off guard, and they really do just that. But be careful...the publisher states that you are on your own...no promise that once you are into a story, you will ever come out. Some stories will give you a laugh, and others will really creep you out and may send you on a time-warp tail-spin of your own."

For the entire review go to the link for MyShelf below.

<http://www.myshelf.com/scifi_fantasy/07/twistedtailsII.htm>