I wrote this primarily for my youngest daughter several years ago based on our shared musical tastes. The time travel part was an attempt to mess with her mind a bit and it worked. She never saw the end coming. Since then, I've reworked it several times. The first rework was changing everything to first person and halfway through I found I didn't like it. This is my 3rd rewrite and I've added more detail in each pass to areas I feel need the reader needs since they can't read my mind. Why can't you people read my mind?? It would be so much easier! :)
While I've written many other stories over the last 12 years, this is the first one I feel might have mass appeal. I plan on eventually pulling my other stories out of mothballs and re-doing them.
To get the most out of this story, you probably need to have a familiarity with Symphonic Metal. I've tried to include band names for each song mentioned so the reader can listen to them and get a feel if they are not already familiar.
As to the historical part, I blew the World Series date during one of my rewrites and plan to fix it later, but I've consulted calendars and google for 1978-1979 events along with my personal remembrances of growing up through those years. The Zack Wylde character is completely contrived and not historical.
I tried to keep the dialogue parts of the two real people in the story short and fairly generic. I would never purposefully portray their character in a negative light. Nobody wants to come across a story using their likeness and be offended.
There are 16 chapters plus an Epilogue if you want to know.
I hope you enjoy the story and I kept you wanting more.
