Ali Campbell-Lopez’s mother dies and comes out of a coma for the fourth time under circumstances that imply Ali has powers that will interest various national security agencies and enemy spies, prompting a violent assault on Ali and her teenage daughter, soon followed by the appearance of a much younger, time-traveling version of her mother.
You wanted to build a time machine to go back and save my grandfather!

Variants

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  1. “The Woman Who Cried Corpse” by Rajnar Vajra, in Analog, January/February 2013.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Rajnar Vajra