When Jake Smith’s neighbor—Stratton Bundford Audray, Ph.D.—invents a time machine, Jake
volunteers to be the first human traveler in order to solve a vexing problem about his own
ancestry.
I’ve been tracing my family tree, and ’ve reached this dead end, because Smith is
such a common name, and I’d really like to volunteer to make the
first manned expedition into the past.
DEBUT
“A Matter of Time: A Romance of Genealogy,” in Katydid & Other Critters,
edited by Robert Reginald (Ariadne Press, June 2001).
VARIANTS
Debut. “A Matter of Time: A Romance of Genealogy,” in Katydid & Other Critters, edited by Robert Reginald (Ariadne Press, June 2001).
I’ve been tracing my family tree, and ’ve reached this dead end, because Smith is
such a common name, and I’d really like to volunteer to make the
first manned expedition into the past.
1 English variant