Rather more frequently than I’d like, it’s hard to tell whether a story involves time travel or not. This could just be a ghost fish story, but there are some indications that the old toothless door-to-door salesman might be traveling back to the time of the early fish.
Millions and millions of years ago this desert was sea bottom. Maybe even the birthplace of man. Who knows?

Tags

(1)

Variants

(1)
  1. “Fish Night” by Joe Lansdale, in Specter!, edited by Bill Pronzini (Arbor House, 1982).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Joe Lansdale