Fresh from graduation (last in his class at the time travel cop academy), Blake Din is
assigned to Senior Agent Mara Riesling (not much older than him) for field training.
I wasn’t overjoyed about running solo through a strange city where every other one of
the barbarians was carrying a gun, but that was the job. The job I’d been working
toward for six years of secondary school and another three years in the Academy.
DEBUT
“The First Cut,” in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David
Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.
VARIANTS
Debut. “The First Cut,” in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.
I wasn’t overjoyed about running solo through a strange city where every other one of
the barbarians was carrying a gun, but that was the job. The job I’d been working
toward for six years of secondary school and another three years in the Academy.
1 English variant