Backwards

BY Gregory Velloze

• Release: 28 October 2020
• Format: Flash Fiction
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Time Phenomena
• Original Language: English

For progeny and ancestors of the Retromens had communicated with their caretaker, studying him as he studied them, generation for generation.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Unspecified Year

Timeline Models

• Cognizant Eternalism: Although the story’s gimmick is in being told backwards, the Retromens are more of an example of Cognizant Eternalism than of time running in reverse.
• Time Runs in Reverse for Some Beings: We’ve included this tag to aid in searching for the story, but time does not really run backwards.

Fictional Tags

• Aliens
• Mad Scientists: The world thinks the narrator and the father are both mad.

Groupings

• Daily Science Fiction (periodical): 28 October 2020