A Perfect Moment: Uncollected Anthology, #22

By DeAnna Knippling

What would it mean, to truly believe in yourself…if your future self could travel through time?

 

Angie has left her past behind, keeping only the slightest of ties with her sister, a brilliant mathematician with whom she is more like an acquaintance than family.

 

One foggy night, Angie sets out along a long, winding road to meet her sister, only to discover herself in a place that seems real, but has been abandoned by all other living souls…other than her own future self.

 

A future self who needs a favor.

 

But how much does Angie trust herself?

 

A tale of faith, time travel, sisterhood…and a perfect moment for all three to unite.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wonderland Press
• Release date: Jul 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781952198052

DeAnna Knippling

DeAnna Knippling is a freelance writer, editor, and book designer living in Colorado.  She started out as a farm girl in the middle of South Dakota, went to school in Vermillion, SD, then gravitated through Iowa to Colorado, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She now writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, and mystery for adults under her own name; adventurous and weird fiction for middle-grade (8-12 year old) kids under the pseudonym De Kenyon; and various thriller and suspense fiction for her ghostwriting clients under various and non-disclosable names. Her latest book, Alice’s Adventures in Underland:  The Queen of Stilled Hearts, combines two of her favorite topics–zombies and Lewis Carroll. Her short fiction has appeared in Black Static, Penumbra, Crossed Genres, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and more. Her website and blog are at www.WonderlandPress.com.  You can also find her on Facebook and Twitter.

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A Perfect Moment

Angie didn’t like driving at night. The road in front of her headlights seemed to turn slyly this way and that through the darkness, its sudden twists and turns only faintly marked by reflective warning signs. The night was warm for February, just above freezing and heavy with damp. Fog rose on the inside of her Jetta’s windows, and she switched on the A/C, cranking it up hot.

Pulling out of a particularly tight turn, she saw a deer in the ditch beside the road, lifting up its head and turning its flat, reflecting eyes toward her, a thin white mist at its feet. She flashed the high beams at it and sped on by. She downshifted to take another winding turn around a stand of evergreen trees leaning against a fence line, then sped up again.

She didn’t want to be late to meet her sister, Zilla. She had left in