Heat Death

On a particularly sunny, 71.5-degree day in April, Preston Alcott successfully invented the technology to speed up time.

Preston had been obsessed with the idea of time — more specifically, one’s perception of its passage — since he was a young boy. Growing up, his family had relatively little money. His father, working two to three jobs at any given point during Preston’s adolescence, was rarely present. Preston’s mother flitted between different income streams like a paranoid bee who was told she had to help support the hive.