It’s a question we all ask ourselves. A question that has sparked countless books and movies. A question that unravels our minds and breaks all sense of reality as we know it. What if you could go back in time and change the past? What if you could shape the future as you see fit?
Would you?
What would you change?
What if you traveled back and killed little baby Hitler? Or caused the South to win the Civil War?
What kind of country would we live in now? Would it be better, or worse? What horrors are awaiting out there in our past, that we just barely avoided?
Forget killing baby Hitler. What if you went back and, knowing what you know today, helped him WIN the war? Where would we be today? We would live in a world that most can’t even imagine without shedding a few tears. We would be in hell.
Think about it. We’ve all read the history books. We all know the stories. But we don’t know it all. We don’t know what the authors let out, or what almost happened but didn’t. And we never will.
Time slips away from us all. Knowledge becomes fuzzy. Our sight of what is true is lost.
Put back on your glasses. Look into what is real.
Stare into those stars of time and ask yourself, what if John Wilkes Booth had a good reason for killing Lincoln? A reason kept secret to protect the innocent; a reason so sinister that it would turn your hair white as light.
What if Jack the Ripper was the protagonist of his life story, and he was only trying to save the world from the apocalypse?
What if there was an agency somewhere out there, responsible for the death of every single celebrity?
What if the Titanic wasn’t just carrying the living?
What if there was more than just lava that erupted from Mount St. Helens?
What if, what if, WHAT IF!?
The questions are endless, and the answers are even more infinite. This is a book that attempts to satisfy some of these questions. This is a book that doesn’t just ask “what if?”, but punches you right in the face with new worlds you could have never conceived. We took your old history book and dipped it in a bucket of white-out and began from scratch.
This isn’t life as you know it. This is life as you don’t know it.
Stephen King once said that the past is obdurate. And that’s true, the past is indeed obdurate.
Reality, however, is not.
—Max Booth III
Zombie Jesus and Other True Stories 