Man in the Empty Suit
by Sean Ferrell
After inventing a time sled at age 18, Sean Ferrell’s hero treks through history,
periodically returning to a post-apocalypse party that he holds for only himself in an
abandoned New York hotel. It seems like the perfect party with the perfect company until
at age 38 he takes pity on a younger self, stopping the Youngster from breaking his nose
in a fall and setting off a chain of untetherings wherein the past lives of his many
selves are no longer following the same path—especially that of his 39- and 40-year-old
selves, the Elder of which is murdered.
“You would know.’
Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell (Soho Press,
February 2013).