I keep writing time travel stories. I try not to, but I can’t stop. My first was a proposed sequel to “Terminator 2: Judgement Day.” I’m sure you’ve heard of it. I didn’t mean to write it, but after I saw the film, I realized that a script I was working on fit nicely as a sequel — And I just happened to know someone who was very close to Arnold’s wife. So, being the young and naive screenwriter I was, I took a stab at it. Many months later, I was told, “Arnold loved the action, but if Jim wants to do another Terminator, Jim will write it.”

Of course, all I heard was, “Arnold loved…”

But I didn’t write my next time travel story for twenty-five years. It was a TV pilot about a family stuck in a time loop and all the shenanigans that ensued. It did very well in a few competitions, then an “A-List” TV Producer got his hands on it and liked it enough to ask, “What else you got?”

You know what that means! So, I scrambled to write an idea that I had just came up with; a modern-day re-imagining of Frankenstein (learn more about it here), and Mr. TV Producer loved it. There was talk about a huge show he was waiting for Amazon to green light (they already shot the pilot), but then Covid hit, 30 million people lost their jobs, and that was that. FYI: in 2020, “Frankenstein Unleashed” won multiple competitions, a fellowship, and was the #1 Top Rated Sci-Fi TV Screenplay for a while in Coverfly’s “The Red List” (and was still at #14 as of August 2025 when Coverfly closed).

Then my publisher told me she was going to do a time travel anthology. I considered reworking that TV pilot, but the submission was limited to 4000 words, and I only had a few weeks. So, I sat down at Starbucks and banged out a story about a customer stuck in a time loop at a coffee shop. The result is, “Have We Met?”

“Have We Met” appears on page 191 of the anthology (FYI: it may or may not be in the “Sample” provided by Amazon).

When a mysterious eclipse traps a young woman and a scientist in separate, but intersecting time loops, they must find a way to connect and escape the loops before the eclipse ends and they lose each other forever.