The Santa Anna Gold
- by Michael Bunker
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Santa Anna Gold” by Michael Bunker, in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.
In addition to the audio/text version on Third Scribe (nicely formatted with images of the area, Jack Finney, and Einstein), this story also appeared as the first story in the Synchronic anthology (22 May 2014). The story follows an off-the-grid man who helps his son, Rick, track down the legendary Santa Anna gold stash by traveling to the past in a Jack-Finney-manner.
“History’s about finding out what happened and what’s true,” and that was that as far as he was concerned.
Variants
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- “The Santa Anna Gold” by Michael Bunker, in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.
Indexer Notes
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- Release—The story was first released on 20 May 2014 at the short-lived website Thirdscribe, accompanied by an audio reading; at about the same time (22 May, according to the ISFDB), it also appeared as the first story in the anthology Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel. We’ve chosen to use the latter as the first appearance because we prioritize contemporaneous print appearances over web sites.