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?
DEBUT
“Fish Night,” in Specter!, edited by Bill Pronzini (Arbor House,
1982).
VARIANTS
Debut. “Fish Night,” in Specter!, edited by Bill Pronzini (Arbor House, 1982).
Millions and millions of years ago this desert was sea bottom. Maybe even the birthplace
of man. Who knows?
1 English variant