Trebor's Time Machine

by Robert Clack

For the time traveler, to walk in another man's shoes is to be another man.
Trebor Lane dreams of the yesteryears that should have been his. In front of the mirror he's Indiana Jones and Alexander the Great rolled into one...and then stuffed into an 8th grader's squatty body. He's an incessant dreamer, a Sunday school drop-out, and an easy target for school spies...and worse.

When Trebor accidentally wins a rigged history bee, the bully Jeffery Randalls gives him a week to pay a price he couldn't afford in three lifetimes. But no worries: he has an ace in the hole, a time machine built to fix the unfixable. Theoretically.

But instead of traveling back to the night of the ill-fated History Bee, the machine drops him off in 1st century Philippi, where a dusty pair of sandals, a backpack to the gut, and a case of mistaken identity turns Trebor Lane into Piso, a lovesick errand boy and an unenthusiastic messenger of God.

370 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2013

About the author

Robert Clack was born in Long Beach, California. The son of a Navy man, his family moved from coast to coast before settling down in Fort Worth, Texas. He's a 2008 graduate of Dallas Baptist University with a degree in business studies. His hobbies include watching baseball, playing Super Mario Bros., and eating ice cream. Some of his hobbies force him to exercise more than others.

Robert prefers webOS over Android, squash over peas, and baseball over soccer. He types on a Thinkpad, doesn't own a mouse--electronic or organic--and keeps a spare Palm Pre at his side, just in case.

You can often find Robert at the movies, the Ballpark in Arlington, or Chick-fil-A. He currently lives in Fort Worth with his lovely wife and three children--and a dog.