A depressed, pregnant scientist is the first to try her own machine that takes her backward and forward into her own body on a myriad of Christmas Days.
If I stopped now, I was thinking, the rest of my life would be a tragedy, I would be forever anticipating what was written, or trying. . . hopelessly, yes, there was nothing in the research then that said I had any hope. . . to change it. I would be living without hope. I could do that. But the important thing was what that burden would do to Alice. . . If I was going to be allowed to keep Alice, after what I’d seen.

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  1. “The Ghosts of Christmas” by Paul Cornell, Tor.com Original Fiction, 19 December 2012 [webzine].
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Paul Cornell