Tired of his marriage, Donald Boyce begins exchanging the odd kiss and soft touch on the hand
with his best friend’s wife Molly, all quite innocent until Friday, the nineteenth, when
Molly proposes that they have a clandestine rendezvous on Saturday, the twentieth, throwing
both of them into a continuous repeat of the nineteenth.
A well-written, early time-loop
story, and also one of the first two time travel stories (along with “An Ounce of
Prevention”) to appear in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
“I don’t want to go either. It’s been so wonderful,” she said, “this little
time alone together. I love this funny little bar; I’ve loved every moment here. I wish
today would never end.”