Mona, who works as a file clerk in the modern-day Wisconsin office of the Time Displacement Bureau, suspects that her new neighbor may be a displaced time traveler or time terrorist, but her awkwardness prevents her from effectively find out out more.
Skirmishes with Purity were no laughing matter, and any traveler who showed the slightest inclination toward interfering with the past would find his or her license permanently removed.

But it made for a good story.

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  1. “He Could Be Ambrose Bierce” by Shannon Kelly Garrity, Daily Science Fiction, 11 December 2012 [webzine].
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Shannon Kelly Garrity