Jake quickly interrupted, “Cody, Jennie is your grandma.” Jake almost broke into laughter, but suppressed it, and seeing the opportunity to inject a little merriment into the all-too-serious conversation in the room, gently pushed Cody along as he walked toward Jennie, saying, “Jennie, this young man thinks you’re cute, and wants to be introduced to you.”Ĭody said, “Hi Jennie, wanna’ go watch a new DVD movie with me out in my folks’ SUV?”Ĭlay couldn’t suppress his laughter, and let it flow all the way out from his belly up through his mouth into the otherwise silent room. Not wanting to interrupt, he continued standing next to Jake, and whispered, “Where’s grandma and grandpa?” And after a slight pause, “Wow, that’s a cute little chick standing there, just about my age. Without waiting for a response, he looked around the room saw his mother and father seated on the couch, and two teenagers standing nearby, all with drinks in their hand, and all participating in a heated conversation. “I remember going to your Attorney office in Dothan once with my dad.” Jake by now had stepped way back near the hallway to the front door. The two of you, once again old, decide to start all over again, becoming teenagers the same way you did 46 years earlier. Decades of international missions pass, and your wife reminds you that you are 127 years old, and that your 100th anniversary is around the corner. Escaping from that world back to your home in Alabama, you use science to discover how you and your bride became teenagers again, and struggle to use that knowledge to bring health and long life to all humanity. Then you are stabbed in a fight and approach death. But you bring joy and health to hundreds of the natives as a result.
The mirth ends when you both end up sleeping on the dirt floor of your own mud hut in Kenya, Africa.
When you two undo that mess, you have to celebrate Thanksgiving with your adult children and grandchildren, who still expect you to be that same old doddering couple, not teenagers. You are soon arrested as a sexual predator for sleeping with your wife, and she is placed into Child Protective Custody. Two days later, your wife becomes a 16-year-old knockout. On your 54th wedding anniversary, an accident happens and you wake up the next morning as a 19-year-old hunk. H.L.Osterman, Editor of Time Travel and Other Science Fiction Journeys yet as up-to-date as modern-day hydrogeology.
A science fiction fantasy written with the wonderment we used to love in those classic pulp magazines.
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