An Unwilling Time-Traveler
(I wrote this between my freshman and senior year of high school. I believe I finished it early in 1990, during my junior year; the first part was written probably in 1987. My favorite TV show at the time was Hogan's Heroes; not only did it inspire me to take German, but I liked to imagine myself at the POW camp with Hogan's group. I wanted to write a story which explained how I would end up in a POW camp in the 1940s.
I wrote the first part while listening to the album Reconstructions by AD, a Christian band from the mid-80s which included two members of Kansas: Kenny Livgren and Dave Hope. So now my story and this album are forever linked in my mind. While researching the third part, I sat in front of my open bedroom window on an unseasonably warm night, listening to the local pop station, and looking through beautiful pictures of the Alps in an encyclopedia. "Hippy Chick" by Soho came on. Though I didn't hear the song again until sometime in 1991 or 1992, I remembered it, and connected it with a warm evening and pictures of the Alps.
I revised the story in college for a writing class. Since there are three different versions, I'll give you the best.)
Part I--Madge becomes the time-traveler's assistant
Part II--Madge is imprisoned and has a forbidden romance
Part III
Part IV