Friday, the Nineteenth

by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

Release: Summer 1950
Format: Short Story
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Tired of his marriage, Donald Boyce begins exchanging the odd kiss and soft touch on the hand with his best friend’s wife Molly, all quite innocent until Friday, the nineteenth, when Molly proposes that they have a clandestine rendezvous on Saturday, the twentieth, throwing both of them into a continuous repeat of the nineteenth.

A well-written, early time-loop story, and also one of the first two time travel stories (along with “An Ounce of Prevention”) to appear in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

“I don’t want to go either. It’s been so wonderful,” she said, “this little time alone together. I love this funny little bar; I’ve loved every moment here. I wish today would never end.”

DEBUT

“Friday, the Nineteenth,” Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Summer 1950.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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