With the universe nearing its end, Jinma Lor travels to an outpost to converse with antimatter beings whose sense of time is reversed from his own.
It is possible that the direction in which the associated souls are traveling is always the orientation for which matter becomes more disorganized.

Variants

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  1. “From Time to Time” by Bruce Stanley Burdick, in Analog, October 1983.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Bruce Stanley Burdick