Nell Gavin
I was born in Chicago, raised my family in Texas, and now live in Michigan. I spent a number of years as a technical writer and wrote a couple of novels over the years. Life got hectic, and I went without writing any new books until 60 Minutes ran a story about UFOs on May 16, 2021.
I didn't think the UFOs were built by the Chinese, and I didn't think they were aliens from outer space. I thought the most likely explanation was time travel.
The story captured my imagination for months. I figured they were watching us, and I wondered what they thought about everything they saw from their more "evolved" perspective in the future. I finally gave in and wrote a book, The Historian Project: A Time Travel Catastrophe, which was 100% inspired by that news story.
“He cannot freshly harm me here, and for that I am grateful, but the harm he previously inflicted reverberates and grows. There is nothing to heal it but time. Even here, there is no other cure for heartbreak. I wish that death were a magical cure for all that ailed my spirit in life; it is one more thing I expected and found false. I arrive with the same baggage I carried with me in life. There is nowhere to lay it down here either, no more than a woman with child can lay aside her babe before its birth, for it is within me. I am as I was, just not encumbered with flesh.”
“The most seductive sin, I suppose, is passing judgment on others, and the next must be acting out of one's anger when one has the power to hurt the ones who wound us.”
“We are all on the same road, some ahead of us and some behind. We do not always recognize ourselves as being among those who are struggling farther back, and misunderstand, scorn, and even persecute the ones who move ahead of us. History is littered with such as these: eccentrics, geniuses, idealists among those most noticeable. These change the world by force, though the change most often does not take place during their own time, they are so far ahead of it and therefore so rarely understood.”
“What we should see is that there is none among us with nothing to give, and that giving is our purpose.”