Fifty future versions of a man show up in his apartment (49 of whom are corrupted) to warn him of an impending fateful decision that he must make correctly.
Michael Main
It’s not anything fatal. You know it can’t be anything fatal, because if it was, then there would be no future self who could be sent back to warn you.

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  1. ”Shakesville” by Adam-Troy Castro and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April 2017.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Adam-Troy Castro