It sounds like science fiction.

The idea that you could go back and fix a moment — undo a mistake, save someone, change a decision that still lingers in your mind years later.

But what if we’re already closer to that reality than we think?

Not through time travel. Not in the way we imagine it.

But through something quieter — and arguably more powerful.

Technology.

Every day, we reshape our past in small, almost invisible ways. Photos are edited. Messages are deleted. Narratives are rewritten. Entire versions of events are curated, filtered, and presented as truth.

What we remember is no longer just what happened.

It’s what survives.

And that raises a question I keep coming back to as a writer:

If we had the ability to truly change the past — would we use it wisely?

Or would we make things worse?

That question sits at the heart of The Breaking Point Series.

Each story explores a moment where someone is given a choice — a chance to act, to intervene, to fix something that once felt beyond their control.

But there’s always a cost.

Because the truth is, the past doesn’t exist in isolation.

Change one moment, and everything that follows begins to shift.

Sometimes subtly.

Sometimes catastrophically.

In my latest book, Call Charges May Apply, that idea becomes literal.

A single phone call. Three minutes. One chance to reach back into the past.

What starts as an opportunity quickly becomes something far more dangerous.

Because when people are given the power to change things…

They don’t always stop where they should.

And someone is always watching.

Maybe the real question isn’t whether we can change the past.

Maybe it’s whether we should.

And if we did…

Would we recognise the world we created afterwards?

— Richard Fenton