As part of a therapy to overcome writer’s block, poet Maleus Taub uses an alien artifact Healing Chair to visit Emily Brontë and Emily Dickinson.
We don’t know how it works. Or even what its energy source is. When the field is on we’ve detected minor fluctuations in certain astronomical objects.

Variants

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  1. “To Emily on the Ecliptic” by Thomas R. Dulski, in Analog, July/August 2004.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Thomas R. Dulski