Theoretical physicist Kyle Preston is getting garbled visitations from a hologramish future descendant who carries dire warnings, which Kyle wishes did more for him and his girlfriend Anna.
It’s like Schroedinger’s Subway Rider. He’s both here and twenty minutes away at the same time and you don’t know which until he meets his girlfriend.

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  1. “This Petty Pace” by Jason K. Chapman, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2011.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Jason K. Chapman