Bilking Time

Associate Professor Antoine Beasley can't win. He spars with assistant professor Dr. Dennison Wigdor over half-baked grants. He tries to game arch-nemesis J. Peabody Cramer, Ph.D., and his unbeatable over-the-backboard shot in a not-so-friendly contest of H-O-R-S-E. To no avail.But then Beasley makes the most serious miscalculation of all: he tries to bilk time itself.The consequences will make you laugh out loud-- or your head explode-- whichever comes first.A tale of time-travel paradoxes by the author of The Totem of Curtained Minds, now available in Fiction River.About the Author:Writer and working scientist Ken Hinckley resides in the Seattle area with his wife and children. His fiction appears in professional markets including Nature, Penumbra, and Fiction River, and his research career spans some 80 scientific papers and 150 patents (and counting). He believes he may yet have a good idea or two left in him.You can find him at kenhinckley.wordpress.com.