It was 1957 and Jerry got off the steam locomotive at Tinyville Station
and trudged the three miles to his uncles rundown farmhouse out at the end Dead Mans Road.
He turned the bend in the driveway leading to the farmhouse
and stopped in his tracks.
There was an awful lot of electrical corono discharges and humming coming from the
barn silo near the house,which was what Jerry expected from any project his uncle was
involved in.
The farmhouse itslef looked normal enough,except for the fact it wasn't staying in one place,but kept hopping instantly three inches back and forth.
Teleportation by Gawd!
The 12 year old city kid slowly advanced toward the teleporting
farm house and noticed that about three feet outside of the walls a 3 inch wide gap had been formed in
the soil.
Being a sensible kid Jerry backed away and got a long tree branch and pushed it into the unseen teleportion barrier
he knew must exist 3 feet out from the walls.
As the branch was pushed into the
"Zone" the teleportation forces chopped the branch neatly
into 3 inch chunks.
The kid just waited and after about a half hour he could hear the
"pop pop pop pop pop"
as the vacuum tubes in his uncles latest gizmo all blew,as well as the lights of the house.
Carefully Jerry pushed open the door and found a flashlight and entered the darkened house
where he found his uncle sobbing away.
"The reality shifter is a complete failure"
"I'm a ruined man"
Jerry was about to ask his uncle what he meant,since from the outside this
teleportation machine had been a complete success,at least until its
tubes blew.
Thinking better of it the kid took in the scene
His uncle holding a helmet that looked like something Captain Z Ro
might don on his tv show,the machine,complete with burnt rubber ozoney tubes
and most startling of all,his grandfathers pedulum clock was telling him it
was midnight.
Since the actual time was 6 PM,either this house had jumped into the future
or into the past.Since the pendulum clock hadn't run since his grandfathers death aboard
the Zeppelin Hinderberg had exploded in flames ,killing
gramps,20 years earlier,the mysteries were piling up.
Jerry ignored his sobbing uncle