I’m a little surprised at how much I am enjoying Gene Wolfe’s stories. This is a fantasy
of a man who builds an exact replica of a Fokker triplane; then, one day on a flight, he sees
a beautiful girl in a vintage balloon, an event that seems explicable only via time
travel.
The story puts me in the mood of Jack Finney’s wonderful non-time-travel story,
“Home Alone.”
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