Coming Back
by Damien Broderick
Physics-lab flunky Eddie Rostow knows that the glory that his professor is claiming over
localized time-reversal should rightly be Eddie’s own; and then, there’s Jennifer who
let him have his way with her one night and now ignores him. So what, forsooth, will he
do when the time contraption throws him into a 34-minute time loop?
I’m not trapped. I thought I was a prisoner, but I’m the first man in history to be
genuinely liberated. Set free from consequence. Do it. If you
don’t like the results, scrub it on the next cycle and try
again.
“Coming Back” by Damien Broderick, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December
1982.