Antiquity--story of the black egg

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Identity theft has just become a life style.On a routine chore for his mother, 14-year-old Seth Millerwitnesses a hole open up in the air, sees a man exit the hole,and watches his life change forever. The man, not sopolitely, shoves Seth through the portal and almost200 years into the future.Seth learns that the man, in quest for an unknownpower, “the black egg,” assumed his identitythrough a form of cloning called“replicating” just to have a fewmoments with the egg, and thenlived out the life perfectly toprotect the historic timeline.Now that he’s stuck in the year 2188, Sethcan never go back because of that timeline.Similar identity theft is common in his newhome, Antiquity. He meets exact, living replicasof Amelia Earhart, Mark Twain, and Jim Thorpe,among many others, while having to train a new setof foster parents. In his spare time, he lodged in a cat-and-mouse thriller for that black egg with some of themost impressive criminals of all time.

For my wife Joyceand my family

There comes a time in everyrightly-constructedboy's life when he has a ragingdesire to gosomewhere and dig for hiddentreasure.-

The Adventures of TomSawyer

Antiquity

story of the blackegg

a novelby Ken Walters

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Chapter One—July, 13 2015—Be careful when the air waves back.11:38 am.Seth Williams checked his watch against the BB&T bank clock at the front of the FoodLion. Unfortunately, the two agreed. Rachel Howard wouldn’t be there for another 22 minutes.He thought, she then would have to clock in and do work stuff for a minute or two. She might besomewhere in the store already—maybe. Anyway, she wasn’t there yet, at least wasn’t where hecould see her, and that’s what mattered.Seth was well ahead of his mom on Aisle 7, Canned Veggies—Soups—Condiments.Standing near the end cap, through the corner of his eye, he saw her and his 3 year-old sister Abby. His mom started to motion for him. He wasn’t quite sure how he knew her intent, butafter 14 years of seeing her intent at anything that involved him, he knew she wanted him to dosomething. He also knew he probably wouldn’t want to. It would take a slick move to avoid her motion. Abby reached for something on a shelf, taking his mom’s attention. Seth grabbed theopportunity and ducked around the Green Giant canned corn display to Aisle 8, Cereal.At the new Food Lion in Taylors, SC, no other aisle was like Aisle 8, with dozens of variations of the same product spanning the entire reach of the aisle on both sides. Hundreds of boxes of cereal. Millions of sugar cane plants gave their lives for this breakfast feast. The boxesalmost formed a brick hallway; that is, if all the bricks were stood up and were set side by side.Seth’s favorite cereal used to be Count Chocula when he was a kid, but at 14 the embarrassmentwould have been too great to be seen eating a cereal named after a baby’s cartoon. He wasexperimenting with Reese’s Puffs as a new favorite, though he sort of missed the Count’s uniquesugar rush. As he walked down the aisle, he pushed over several boxes of Honey-Nut Cherrios.Stock boys needed to have something to do, he thought. In case that wasn’t enough to occupythem, he turned a few boxes of Lucky Charms upside down.11:39Seth wore his auburn hair in a mullet style. His hair and his striking green eyes weregiven to him by his mom. His smallish, pug nose was a gift from a man he’d never met. The boy stood slightly tall for his age at 5”4’ and weighed 90 pounds, which fluctuated by the season. Now, in July, he might need two wet beach towels to be 90. He wore a black T-shirt with the band Acoustical Epoch’s faces covering his chest. AE was simply the best goth rock group ever,he thought, and they would be as close as Asheville in three days. Getting to be there would be adream, but that was impossible. Quickly, his mind, once again, traced the steps that might makethe impossible happen. Even winning the lottery would take too long to get the cash, thoughthere must be some way to get an advance on that kind of money, but getting enough disposablemoney to buy some numbers would be tougher than winning the whole thing. Anyway... Hismom said Seth’s mind never rested, but rather it churned and churned over every little thing. Hewondered why she would say that. He thought about it quite a bit, but couldn’t figure out whatwould make her say it.11:40