Angela’s mother takes her to a support group—Children of the Post-Contemporary, aka the Doxies—where the children reluctantly talk about what it’s like to have various futuristic features and a father from the future.
She was a walking paradox, her mother said. And she must never make waves, never draw attention, never accomplish something or participate or pop her head out, for even a second. If she changed the future, her father might not exist, and neither would she.

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  1. “Doxies” by Brandon Alspaugh, in Apex, Fall 2006.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Brandon Alspaugh