Glitch: Chapters 1–3

by Laura Martin
Regan Fitz and Elliot Mason are teenage Glitchers — time travelers trained to protect the past and future from changes in history. After they find a letter from Regan’s future self, the two must work together to stop an impending disaster that threatens everyone’s future.

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  1. materialize
    come into being; become reality
    I materialized in the back row of Ford’s Theatre for the fifth time this year just as the play, Our American Cousin, began.
  2. immaculate
    free from stain or blemish
    Because I’d been here countless times before, I barely noticed the immaculate and stately Ford’s Theatre, the theatergoers around me wearing their best dresses and suits, or the smell of a generation who handled body odors by covering them up with heavy colognes and perfumes.
  3. simulation
    the act of imitating the behavior of some situation
    Of course, I wasn’t exactly historically accurate, since unchaperoned twelve-year-olds weren’t a common sight at Ford’s Theatre, but that didn’t matter for a simulation.
  4. inconsequential
    lacking worth or importance
    You had to be in the past, but not interfere or interact with it in even the tiniest, most inconsequential way.
  5. debriefing
    a meeting in which someone reports on a mission or task
    Don’t ask me how, but I knew it instantly at a bone-deep level, but because I’d have to give a concrete reason for the identification in my debriefing, I took the extra half second to identify where she’d gone wrong.
  6. irrevocably
    in a manner that cannot be taken back
    “Well, that stinks,” I said.
    “One way of putting it,” said Professor Treebaun as he looked up from his tablet for the first time. “Although it seems a bit tame considering that if this was a real mission, you’d have just irrevocably ruined the unity of the United States of America.”
  7. catastrophic
    extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin
    Knowing that something that seemed so 100 percent right, like saving the president of the United States, could actually have catastrophic consequences didn’t make it feel any less awful.
  8. behoove
    be appropriate or necessary
    "You know," he went on, eyebrow raised, "it would behoove you to study your history a bit more."
  9. telltale
    disclosing unintentionally
    “Very good, Cadet Mason,” Treebaun said, turning back to the class. “Now, who can explain the telltale flaw in the Butterfly Cadet Frost failed to apprehend?”
  10. sporadic
    recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances
    There were still the sporadic attacks by misguided vigilantes, but for the most part every active Butterfly was part of Mayhem.
  11. smug
    marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction
    “Had she used the alternate staircase, she would have arrived in plenty of time to apprehend her Butterfly,” said Cadet Mason, and I could just picture the smug look on his stupid face as he said it.
  12. reflexive
    without volition or conscious control
    I’d just put together that I needed to hide the letter, and fast, when his hand shot out to grab it. I jerked back reflexively, but it was too late.
  13. charade
    an imitation that humorously misrepresents something
    “I need that letter back,” I hissed in his ear, just loud enough for him to hear me.
    “What’s in it for me?” he whispered back, his arms wrapping around me in what was probably the most awkward and weird hug of my life as he kept up the bizarre charade.
  14. facilitate
    make easier
    Behind the classic building facades of brick and stone was some of the most intricate technology known to man, all developed to help facilitate the continuation of the Glitch Initiative.
  15. wanderlust
    very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
    But, as I’d been reminded on multiple occasions by my mom, the security of the future was more important than satisfying a twelve-year-old girl’s wanderlust.
Created on Tue Nov 25 19:49:19 EST 2025 (updated Mon Jan 26 16:15:15 EST 2026)

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