A ten-year-old boy manages to first lose his sister in 11th-century Britain (via his father’s time machine) and then lose his Pop somewhere in the 9th-century Bulgarian Empire. The sister is found fairly quickly, but not until thirty years later does an archeology colleague bring a clue as to exactly where his father might be.
When he’d left the room for a moment Sis dared me to send her somewhere.

Tags

(1)

Variants

(1)
  1. “Grief in the Strange Loop” by Rhonda Eikamp, Daily Science Fiction, 23 April 2013 [webzine].
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Rhonda Eikamp