Time Travel in the Fourth Grade

by Jenny Hogan

I’M IN THE fourth grade, and I have four rules that I live my life by. Number one: all vegetables taste better with ketchup. Two: if your mom asks you what you did in school that day, say anything other than “not much.” Three: stay away from girls. (They’re trouble. Especially Kathy Hanson.) And four: never, ever have anything to do with time travel. . . . At the time, it was only a theory I’d been working on, but the possibilities were endless. With time travel, I could cause my granddad not to spill that milkshake on Nana at the malt shop, or Dad not to spill that latte on Mom in the coffee shop. That would prevent them from meeting and cause me not to be born. Or…

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