MUSE MONDAY
Please welcome JL to Muse Monday on Discover... What a premise for a book! You'll love how her Muse led her down the path for this sure to be good read.
What happens in the past
stays in the future
This wasn’t the most uplifting topic of study, but while
exploring what such a futuristic society might use time travel technology for,
I also wondered how they might try to survive and thrive until the people
tasked with changing the past succeed.
After traversing through time, my heroine returns to the camp
she calls home: a controlled village-population settlement at the edge of an
arid landscape, with radioactive regions to the north, a desert to the east,
and a toxic wasteland in the south. It’s is just one of many human camps
dotting what remains of a once-lush world.
Without trees to spare, they lash together dried mushroom
bark for doors. They weave rugs from strands of grass species that still grow
in harsh climates. Some folks travel between camps to share resources,
contribute manpower, and deliver messages to loved ones because communication
networks aren’t what they used to be.
All the while, brave volunteers travel back in time to change
the past, believing if they alter just enough of it, they’ll secure the
beautiful future their ancestors dreamed of.
In real life, however, the only way you and I can affect the
future is with what we do today. At some point, our descendants will look at
the world we gave them and wonder what we were thinking. I wonder what we’ll
tell them if they manage to come back and ask?
Until We Met Again: A Time
Travel Novelette by JL Peridot
A time traveller absconds to the past in search of
her lost love.
One word: my name. A call from Origin through the neural lace
grafted to my brain and nerves, connecting me to another place in another time.
A reminder of what I’m here to do.
I clutch a bottle cap; its sharp metal edges ground me in the
present. It’s funny, don’t you think, to consider this moment the present, as
if the past and future I came from aren’t supposed to exist? If you were here,
I’d ask. You’d smile and kiss my forehead and say you love my nonsense
questions.
But you’re not here. They want me to forget you ever were.
Available now at most e-book retailers.
About JL Peridot
JL Peridot writes love letters to the future on devices
from the past. She's a qualified computer scientist, former website maker,
amateur horticulturist, and sometimes illustrator. But most of the time, she's
an author of romantic science fiction. She lives with her partner and
fur-family in Boorloo (Perth, Australia) on Whadjuk Noongar country.
Visit her website at jlperidot.com for the full catalogue of her work.
