The novella version of this story appeared first, but I don’t know which was written first.
Both are well worth reading, but my preference is for the novella which tells the same story
in a more direct fashion.
I could say that time is a convention and that all events occur simultaneously.
DEBUT
Bring the Jubilee (Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953).
VARIANTS
Debut. Bring the Jubilee (Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953).