Beasts of the Earth
by Ernie Lindsey
Eleven months after Lucy Quinn died of brain cancer, her mother struggles with hourly
grief while her oncologist father is pulled through a portal to a time of Noah and
unicorns.
Dutton nudged forward, arm shaky, stick wobbling, and when the tip pierced the surface,
he was caught unawares by the forceful tug from the other end. He didn’t let go fast
enough, stumbling forward, falling into it with two faint words whispering in his mind:
Jess . . . Lucy . .
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“Beasts of the Earth” by Ernie Lindsey, in The Time Travel Chronicles, edited by Crystal Watanabe (Windrift
Books, 2 November 2015).