wade albert white

Title: Divine Architects
Age Category: Young Adult
Genre: Science Fiction
Word Count: 80,000

Pitch: While correcting distorted timelines, seventeen-year-old Sara discovers her own future is linked to a technology-stealing criminal. Joining him will make her a murderer, but changing their future risks erasing her friends from existence.

First 250 Word of Manuscript:

The first time I traveled through time, I overshot by three minutes.

Instead of the hum of the subways in New York and the 14:12 train to Brooklyn thundering by, laughter greeted me. When I finally managed to catch my breath, I forced my eyes open. I’d also apparently missed my target by four kilometres, landing slap bang in the middle of the bushes of Central Park where anyone could have noticed me pop out of thin air.

A stellar performance, if I did say so myself. The exam board would be thrilled.

I willed my legs to move before anyone became suspicious. The lingering lurch of Control’s simulator struggled to settle in my bones. The moment the world stopped spinning my head gave an almighty thud of protest. My Duty Sergeant hadn’t thought to mention ‘by the way Sara, when you travel through time you’ll get the world’s worst migraine’. She’d also missed out the part where my tongue went numb, and every atom in my body tried to find itself again.

This was not how I’d planned my first visit to the twentieth century.

Back in the days when I allowed myself to imagine good things, the city of New York held nothing but possibilities, Broadway shows and endless pretzels. I’d never thought of it as a map with a moving target, a test for me to prove myself worthy of joining an elite time traveling crew. So far, I was pretty sure I’d failed.