It's an acronym obviously
In the first story Alex mentions he works for TACO. That doesn't mean he receives payments in food because TACO is an acronym. it stands for
Time Anti-Chronoclasm Agency.
You may not be familiar with the word 'Chronoclasm' so here's an example of one:
Abraham Lincoln looked at his wristwatch before standing up to give the Gettysburg Address
Nothing wrong there surely? After all wristwatches were first produced in 1812 and the Gettysburg Address occured in 1863. Except wristwatches were very delicate objects and were only worn by extreamly wealthy women. Men didn't start wearing wristwatches until the 1880s when they became less fragile. A chronoclasm is an object or event which is out of time and which betrays the existance of time travel to primitive cultures such as ours. The Time Anti-Chronoclasm organisation was set up to police time travel, recover objects out of time and correct events which timetravellers have accidentaly instigated.
In the second story you'll come across another acronym associated with timetravel - B.E.L.L. I would tell you what that stands for but Alex point blank refused to explain it so I simply don't know. Alex leaks information however, and I'm sure that he will eventually let the information slip. I suspect that whoever came up with BELL as an acronym is an adherant of a certain fast food chain based in Irvine, California. Anyway, all I could get out of Alex is that if TACO is the timetravel 'police' then BELL is the timetravel 'FBI'.
How I first met Alex Pearin, the time traveller; also known as 'Jack the Ripper'.
How I made my first time travel trip to rescue the Blair witch.
My second time travel trip; to make sure the Titanic sank!
My third time travel trip; to make sure he didn't become the world's first aeronaut
What Next?
I'm working on a new short story - Play Time.
Alex and I travel back to 1593 to persuade Shakespear that it would be a very bad idea for Sir Walter Raleigh to evade Queen Elizabeth I's wrath by shipping out to Virginia.
'Shakespear'? Shouldn't that be 'Shakespeare'?
Believe it or not there are seven known signatures of Shakespeare but none of them have that spelling.
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