Ellie Voigt’s job is to sit and watch a door, until one day she gets angry enough at Mr. Tarblecko that she steps through the door into a time war.
One man with a sunstroker can be overwhelmed by savages equipped with nothing more than neutron bombs—if there are enough of them, and they don’t mind dying!

Variants

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  1. “Legions in Time” by Michael Swanwick, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April 2003.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Michael Swanwick