Duncan Shields is one of the more prolific writers at 365 Tomorrows—quite possibly producing 365 time travelers on his own—and for me, this is one of his better stories.

Normally, I don’t like suicides in stories because I feel that the topic is often approached in a shallow manner, but in this case, Shields’s hero has a hobby of tracking and trying to understand teen suicides while he philosophizes about the alternate universes created by time travel.
I suppose as hobbies go, it’s a little dark. Whatever. It keeps me humble, rooted in the now, happy to be alive, and aware of death.

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  1. “Chronomechanic” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 1 January 2010 [webzine] [Webzine accessed at https://365tomorrows.com/01/01/chronomechanic/ on 30 June 2021.].
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Duncan Shields