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    The Face of Trouble
    The Face of Trouble
    The Face of Trouble
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    The Face of Trouble

    By Stefon Mears

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    A new face. A new body. A new time. But before the traveler can learn his mission in this time and place, an assassin shoots at him.

    Only a crucial mission would draw an opposition agent.

    He'll change the future. If he survives.

    The Face of Trouble, a time travel short story from Stefon Mears, author of Stealing from Pirates and Fade to Gold.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThousand Faces Publishing
    Release dateMay 1, 2017
    ISBN9781386111481
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      The Face of Trouble

      The Face of Trouble

      Stefon Mears

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      Inever know which face is mine.

      In the crowd. In the mirror. I could be any of them. I could be you. And I might never know it.

      I wake in the morning. Already a change. Last I recall I was a hospital orderly working the night shift in Nineteen Eighty-Six. I was a big guy then. Hefty, but with at least as much muscle as fat. But it's morning this time, yellow sun high over the fir trees and snowy mountain peaks outside my cabin window.

      The glass looks either cheap or old, little runnels of warp here and there.

      Did I go backward again? No. I hear a heater click on, smell warmed dust entering the room. The window is caulked around the edges. The log cabin around me is façade.

      The girl in the bed is real. Leggy. Dark skinned like me. Blonde. Probably not like me. Rare for this skin tone. She's still asleep, sprawled in a silk nightdress and a mess of plaid flannel sheets. For some reason I don't think she picked them out.

      Did I?

      I'm male this time, a wiry kind of skinny. And unlike the blonde, I sleep in the nude. Or at least I did last night. I dig through the chest of drawers (also faux log design) but no sign of a wallet. Not on the tree stump nightstand either. But I do find underwear, jeans and a plain white tee shirt that fit me. Plus some silkier underwear and shapelier clothes that probably fit her.

      Frankly, I'd rather wear those. Men's clothing is so plain and stolid. Boring. But my

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