Dear reader,

It occurs to me that some of you may have questions about my chapters in the Fixing History novella, so I will record my references for you as I go.

First, it seems rather silly to have to make a social media disclaimer at the start of every chapter.  It certainly offends my 1st Amendment sensibilities.  Unfortunately, not all of the college graduates working in social media departments know what the word ‘novella’ means, much less have the logical sense to deduce what fiction entails.  I predict that some fact checker somewhere is going to give me a “MOSTLY FALSE” rating at some point.  It may help to have the word “FICTION” branded across every post when I appeal their censorship.  One can only hope.

On to the footnotes:

1.  The ‘I Can’t Breathe’ masks – see the cover photo of WORLD Magazine, 6/27/20 issue, volume 35, number 12.

2.  There is a long list on Wikipedia of the protests that occurred in Southern California.  I leave it to your imagination to pick one.

3.  The reference to Jefferson Davis was one that piqued my interest.  I could not find the exact quote given in an actual protest speech, but I found another that was equally bad and used it instead.  And when one is protesting a street sign, who’s to say for whom it was named?  It could just as easily have been named for a local rancher.

4.  The issue of canceling America has been raised at least once in the protests.  Protesters have also proclaimed their allegiance to Marxism.

5.  A word about HG Wells’ classic, The Time Machine.  This novella follows in a long line of adaptations and further adventures created using his invention.  It also follows his original format of publishing the novella chapter-by-chapter in a magazine. 

For further reading, here is the Wikipedia article.

Read the book online here.

Own your own model of the machine.   (I’m not affiliated to this website in any way – I just thought it was cool.)