The Thread

A future society learns to manufacturer complete bodies. People exchange their old bodies for new ones every 10 years or so. The technology developed to move a soul into a new body is then used to move an eternal soul into a new body in a different time. They hope to use this version of time travel to colonize the billions of years of earth’s prehistory. They hope to relieve the overcrowding caused by the eternal life that comes with new bodies. Unfortunately, a rogue time traveler changes history and society is destroyed, leaving the colonists stranded. Two teenaged girls are recruited to help repair the damage to history. They accept the quest, but as things develop they begin to question this story and the motives of the traveler they are helping. How fragile is history? Are there limits on our free choice? Mainly set in Texas in 1872.