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.
DEBUT
“The Man Who Could Turn Back the Clock,” in The Omnibus of Time (Fantasy
Publishing, 1950).
VARIANTS
Debut. “The Man Who Could Turn Back the Clock,” in The Omnibus of Time (Fantasy Publishing, 1950).
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.
1 English variant