The Second Hand Man
January 23rd, 2013

The headline today read:

Skinhead Arrested for Chinatown Blast!

Beneath that was:

Randyll Major McFarlane, known to his friends and associates as TheMajor, a White Power Skinhead Activist belonging to the neo-Nazi group callingthemselves A4A (America for Americans), has been taken into police custody forthe recent bomb blast that rocked Chinatown, killing 8 and seriously injuringanother 23.

After reading further, there was no mistaking that this was the very sameRandyll Major McFarlane who had been in the papers before - but not in thislifetime.

His name had been the discussion amongst many of Sedgefield’s residentsafter he had been the fifth kid to go missing in the Willow Creek area. Hisname would, many years later, once again make it into the papers after his andthe other children’s remains were unearthed in Du Maille’s hothouse.

So, I managed to save his and the lives of 3 other children, only to replaceout that my actions have now caused the death of 8 others.

Am I not capable of performing just one lasting good deed in this newtwisted continuity? Is fate determined to always have the last laugh? Am Itruly a fly in the ointment of life; a foreign body in the crystal-clear streamof time?’

Once again - Time has spoken!

And Time is a four-letter word!!!