Elinor

Jay and Anna stayed behind as the four of them packed into the back of Mildred's car. "So, how did you all meet?" Mildred asked. Just then, Esther gripped Skull's ...

“I’m sorry,” Jay said softly. “It’s just that there’s no one left I love. No reason to live anymore. But you’ve all lost others too. I know that.” He took ...

Their first night passed in 1939. Esther was expecting to wake up in the library, but they didn't. They were back in Anna's apartment. All this time, she'd never really ...

"Grow up," Jay spat in the young, unremarkable boy's direction. "I'm sorry mommy can't tuck you goodnight and read you a bedtime story, but that's the way life is sometimes." ...

Elijah saw the others looking when his eyes drifted to the headstone. Jay Whitman 1933-2021 Jay. So that was his name. Of course. Elijah had been his middle name, he ...

Amy watched as Wren walked out onto the street. Back to her time. Was it really only 1 o'clock? So much had happened this morning already. She flopped onto her ...

Esther watched her father play with Carter, trying to think of words to say. Of why the Librarian brought them here. She thought she knew, but it gave her a ...

Before long, Anna had gotten the groceries she'd needed and checked out and Anna said they could go back to her apartment so they could meet Jay, and Mildred, who ...

"I was in my bathtub, listening to music, and the next I'm here," Rachel added nervously. While she didn't see herself as a wimp, there was a part of her ...

"I'll stay with her," Claire said. "We should make a fire. Get her some water too." Claire was trying to be vague enough that it was clear that she had ...

Elijah followed Matvei and Wally out the window. He didn't answer Wally's question because he was torn. There was a part of him that wanted to remember, wanted to remember ...

Amy was distracted by Wren's phone. "Whoa, that's a phone?" She exclaimed. She supposed in the future, everyone carried their phones with them, and they were tiny and sleek. She ...

It wasn't far to the grocery. But the streets seemed empty. If he was five, that meant it was 1939. The Depression was waning down by then, but its effects ...

Rachel wasn't sure what was stranger. The fact that one moment she'd been relaxing in a bathtub and the next she was in a swamp with what looked to be ...

"Nobody was going to?" Claire replied, an edge to her voice. She didn't usually get snippy with others, but was starting to grow impatient. It was clear her companions didn't ...