A time traveler seeking lost seeds in the past finds a man who may have started the worst influenza of the 20th century.
The odd truth of working as a temporal interventionist is that some there-and-thens are better than others.

Variants

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  1. “Small Moments in Time” by John G. Hemry, in Analog, December 2004.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by John G. Hemry