For a fee, Jenning’s time-travel agency which will send Webster back through the time stream to inhabit other’s bodies in an attempt to alter some important event such as the loss of a son in Vietnam.
The fabric of time is a delicate, almost whimsical thing. Our success rate runs at nearly eight-two percent, and within the industry that is an enviable rate. But we just can not guarantee success.

Variants

(1)
  1. “Jenning’s Operative Webster” by J. E. Walters, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 1979.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by J. E. Walters