During a picnic on a planet under study, eight-year-old Emmy wanders away and through a portal that is only partly a time machine.
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  1. “Through Portal” by Dominica Phetteplace, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2014.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Dominica Phetteplace