Time and Story
I'm working on this story where each of the characters is living the story from a different direction--one is moving through it linearly, one backwards, and one randomly:
He'd asked the guy in charge of 'expedition' planning about her. "If you're building a time machine, Megan Whiterose is the one person you absolutely want on your team," Jack Parrish had said.
"We're not building a time machine," Dylan said with a snap.
Jack rolled his eyes. Dylan didn't particularly care for him, had pulled some strings to get him assigned to the expedition planning task force and off Dylan's project team--he hadn't planned on Jack being put in charge. "Whatever you want to call it, Whiterose is someone you better have on your team. She gets the philosophical parts."
"There are no philosophical parts," Dylan said.
"Oh yeah," Jack told him. "There are."
...In the Aftermath of Rain