When Alan’s coworker tells him that an old women’s magazine has a romance story called “The Love That Conquered Time” with Alan himself as the hero, he is dubious, but he reads the thing nonetheless.
You’re the only reason, Claudia. I did it for you. I read a story that you wrote and I knew it was about me and that it was about you. I searched in the Archives and I found your picture and then I knew that I loved you and that I had always loved you and that I always would.

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  1. “Bad Timing” by Molly Brown, in Interzone, December 1991.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Molly Brown