The First Cut
- by Edward W. Robertson
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The First Cut” by Edward W. Robertson, in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.
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.
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- “The First Cut” by Edward W. Robertson, in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.