My wife and I have a rule with cats: If you see the mess, or hear it being made, you clean it up. No questions or excuses. It's the same when you have to clean up unauthorized time travelers' antics.

In timeline 7, H.G. Wells never made his historic 1938 broadcast. But here we are, 10 years before Tom Cruise is even born, and people all across the Midwest, if not the nation, are watching B&W sets on which tripods chase him through city streets.

I curse under my breath and start making plans.