Cheena’s husband comes back to the port around the wormhole—dead, though the death is in the future, and she doesn’t bother to tell him.
The wormholes were the port’s very reason for existing, the center of Cheena’s universe.

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  1. “At Dorado” by Geoffrey A. Landis, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2002.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Geoffrey A. Landis