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the
time.”
    “What are you talking about?” I knew I had
the black cube, and that it was in my pocket at that very moment,
but I had no memories of ever using it for anything.
    “I can’t tell you. I shouldn’t have said
anything.”
    “Please tell me what you are talking
about.”
    “I’ll tell you this. The more you use it, the
more your memories will be messed up. Time lag. Also, it is much
more difficult for me to find you when you use it, so don’t use
it.”
    I pulled out the black cube and looked at it.
The date on the cube was 2013. I pushed the button once and let go,
and said, “It doesn’t do anything.”
    “Trust me, it does,” she said.
    “Why can’t you tell me?”
    “Rules are rules, Kev. Anyway, you’ll figure
it out.”
    She gave me a kiss and then disappeared.
    I looked down at the black cube and pressed
the button on the cube again, this time holding it down for a
second. The date went from 2013 to 2012. I looked around and
noticed that things appeared to have changed, but in what way I was
not sure. I pressed the button twice and held it for a second and
the date went up by one.
    Out of curiosity, I again pressed the button
twice and held it, but this time until the number climbed to 3237
and stopped. Around me, the world had changed, although the park
itself had not changed. Surrounding the park I now saw an immense
city. In the sky above, I saw flying cars. In the park, I saw many
people and some aliens. Nobody paid me any attention.
    I forgot what I had done, forgot about the
girl and her warning, and forgot who I was. I looked at the cube
again, and out of curiosity, I pressed the button once and held it
until the number dropped to 2013. Things returned to normal,
although, at that point, I did not remember them being anything
other than normal.
    I had a habit of using the black cube this
way, of taking myself back and forth in time, a kind of tick,
something I didn’t realize I did. I had done this many times, but
always forgot I had done it.
    A minute later, I remembered who I was and I
remembered Uncle Joe and thought it might be a good time to go fly
planes with him, so I returned to his farm.

Pnukes
    Clive and I decided to go to college together,
settling on MIT. We both chose computer science and electrical
engineering as our major.
    I liked MIT, and really enjoyed living in
Boston, and Clive felt the same way, but for some reason we both
felt stifled. Still, we stuck to it, thinking we would be more
engaged when we started taking higher-level classes.
    In that time, Clive only mentioned the girl
once, asking me if I remembered the time she took us to other
planets. I had no idea what he was talking about and he said he
might have imagined it, dropping the subject. I immediately forgot
he ever brought it up.
    At the end of our second year, we decided to
drop out and continue our studies on our own. Clive’s said his
parents didn’t really mind, and were happy to support him, provided
he showed that he was working toward something that would get him a
job. Uncle Joe and Aunt Helen wanted me to get my degree, but
didn’t put up much of a fight. I had plenty of money from my
father’s life insurance policy and the sale of my home, so there
was no question about me being able to support myself.
    Clive and I moved to a sleepy town in
Vermont, five miles from the Canadian border, buying a nice four
bedroom house near the center of town, a town that had very little
other than a small market, a bar, an inn, and a gas station. I took
one of the spare bedrooms and turned it into a workshop. Clive
turned the other spare bedroom into a library and study. We both
agreed we had found the perfect place to figure out what we wanted
to do.
    I had developed a strong interest in signal
processing and communication devices while at MIT. Further, I had
developed an interest in signals that could travel faster than
light, something most thought impossible.
    I set out to build a device that