The Man Who Could Turn Back the Clock
- Eloi Honorable Mention
- by Ralph Milne Farley
- Flash Fiction
- Fantasy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Man Who Could Turn Back the Clock” by Ralph Milne Farley, in The Omnibus of Time (Fantasy Publishing, 1950).
After a night in an isolated barn with a seductive woman, a man tries to explain his absence to his wife. It could be that Farley invented the choose-your-own-ending-story with this short parable.
Then the man saw that he had made a tactical mistake; so he turned back the clock a few minutes and tried the conversation over again.
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- “The Man Who Could Turn Back the Clock” by Ralph Milne Farley, in The Omnibus of Time (Fantasy Publishing, 1950).