Paul Adams

A time travel story like no other - no technology, only the inexplicable will of God, as the hero divines what happens. God starts by creating two men, Henry Williams in 1778 and Paul Adams in 1923, who physically might be identical twins. A terrific storm in 1808 and a concussion while hiking in 1955 place Henry in limbo in time, and Paul in Henry's place in 1808. Paul must "become" Henry, lest he be declared insane were he to tell the truth. He manages, after digesting the enormity of his situation. He adapts, falls in love, marries, impregnates his wife. Then he is jumped back to 1955, and Henry reappears, a victim of time-lapse amnesia. Henry, a lout, takes up the marriage he can't recall beginning, induces a miscarriage with his clumsiness, and follows later with his own impregnation. Everything is righted in the end, with one more storm and one more time jump.