Birthday Boy

From the festive mind of BILL ALIVE, author of the acclaimed steampunk comedy THE PUNCTUALITY MACHINE, comes a short, sparkling tale of time travel, sibling rivalry (well, cousins), and love.What if we'd gotten time travel instead of the Internet?It's 2005, and Marvin, a still-mostly-aspiring actor, is turning thirty. His brilliant, blowhard cousin Drew, though only two weeks older, has just made it onto the illustrious Time Team at MIT… and he makes sure everyone at Marvin's birthday party knows it.Marvin has spent his whole life trailing his successful cousin. If Drew manages to pull off actual time travel, will Marvin ever live it down?Maybe Marvin needs to take matters into his own hands… before he runs out of time himself.If you love alternate history and funny, thoughtful, short science fiction that imagines how future tech might really play out, don't miss this party of a story with the Birthday Boy.