Danny and his partner in soldiering are at ground zero when a storm of refugees from a devastated future begins to arrive.
Michael Main
Nobody really knew much about that devastation—The Catastrophe, as it had been called. It had happened—would happen, from Danny’s perspective—almost a million years in the future, or so the Time Techs believed.

Variants

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  1. “Timestorm” by Steve Bowkett, in The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories, edited by Dennis Pepper (Oxford University Press, November 2001).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Steve Bowkett