Maybe eternity isn’t as long as Myron Kastleman had feared.
The same hour keeps happening over and over again. Only it isn’t an hour. Not really. It seems to be getting shorter.

Variants

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  1. “12:02 P.M.” by Richard A. Lupoff, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2011.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Richard A. Lupoff