Jamie Gegeny

Time's HIccups Jamie Gegeny

Suicide's going nicely for Frank Saturday, until he's interrupted by a young woman named Daydream Belle (DB) Weaver, claiming to be from the future. She explains that a sixty-year-old manuscript he wrote could save the world, if only Frank would take his head out of the noose long enough to publish it. Joining DB and Frank are Reinhardt O'Shaughnessy, an ex-Kampfschwimmer (German navy seal) turned chef; Rusty Dent, a literary agent fallen from grace; and Leigh Rizzo, a mysterious waitress who knows much more than she lets on. Their common enemy is DB's estranged husband, Christopher Bederman, who has some unique views on pregnancy, to say the least, and fantasizes about becoming a demigod. Elsewhere, four weirdos go shopping for sex toys, an Aborigine takes his ex-slave bride to see a shaman, and a French Canadian hit man weeps before God (the radio personality, not the deity). Most important of all, why does the whole planet keep hiccuping like that?As the calamitous events all tie together, our protagonists reflect on the past while risking the present to save the future. It builds to an all-hands-on-deck climax that keeps the emphasis on climax. Time's Hiccups is the perfect story for the #MeToo movement. It posits what could happen to women everywhere if certain behaviors and policies go unchecked, all the while challenging stagnant notions of what it means to have control over something. Or someone. Somehow, it's also dryly hilarious.