The Willow Tree
- by Jane Rice
- Short Story
- Fantasy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Willow Tree” by Jane Rice, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1959.
By my count, this is the fifth time travel story in the February 1959 issue of F&SF, which is a record. Maybe they were anticipating the release of The Time Machine in the subsequent year.
In this story, four orphans are sent to live in the past with the rather odd Aunt Martha and the slightly less odd Aunt Harriet, who together give the children only one commandment: Never play under the willow tree!
In this story, four orphans are sent to live in the past with the rather odd Aunt Martha and the slightly less odd Aunt Harriet, who together give the children only one commandment: Never play under the willow tree!
When the four O
::children, Lucy, Robert, Charles, and May, were orphaned by a freak of circumstances, they were sent to live in the Past with two spinster relatives, ostensibly because of crowded conditions elsewhere.
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- “The Willow Tree” by Jane Rice, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1959.