Friend to Time

“I said I won,” Garson Bartham remarked quietly. His wife pounced on him. It was a ticket into the future for two. She kissed his beard.

“We’re going to experience something we’ve never had the chance to do. Go on a nuclear powered spacecraft and actually bend time,” Kalinta Bartham said.

“We’re going to have the ability to deal with the consequences.”

“Like what?”

“Time dilation, muscular atrophy, paralysis, organ failure among other conditions,” Bartham said.

“I don’t want to go,” she said.

“That’s fine. I can find another woman. It won’t be difficult at all. I’ll fly with her.”