After Jack Reynolds, a historical phenomenologist, has an affair, Fiona demands that he use the time machine he stole from a shut-down program to retrieve a fancy handbag from the early 1900s.
Prove it then. Prove it by doing something for me. Something special.

Variants

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  1. “Superluminosity” by Alan Wall, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2010.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Alan Wall