The Way Back
Jim Claggett
science fiction, fiction
When Curtis Harvey, the sixty-five-year-old coach for the Winakwa Warriors football team, is knocked unconscious during a practice, he wakes up lying on the field. But something is different—for starters, he’s wearing his high school football equipment.
Curtis has somehow travelled back in time to his hometown in 1974, and he’s seventeen again. Although desperate to get back to his wife and kids in the future, he is given a second chance to repair relationships with friends and family. He attends classes, plays football with his old team, and even tries to reconnect with his estranged father. Curtis joins with two people and a professor to try and get back to 2023. No guarantee for him to get back but he has to try, risking his life.
This is the first time I have tried something like this and it has been a great journey. It helped me get a few issues out of the way and I had fun doing it. Now I'm hooked.