A retired widower travels back to his son’s death during an operation in which his heart is momentarily stopped.
“Geoffrey,” I tried to say. He wasn’t looking at me. He was staring through the bars of his cage, his arms as thin as the sticks of bamboo, as they had been toward the end.

Variants

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  1. “Tachycardia” by Paul Park, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2002.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Paul Park