A rambling story of a young man who comes to New York, eventually takes over the ownership of an antique store, and comes upon a young woman who has a mirror (with slight time-travel powers connected to the time of the Black Plague) to sell and a heart to capture.
I was working late as usual, when our new employee—Dolores, whom I’d hired myself—came into the back office, now my office, to let me know tht a Rebecca Ward was on the phone and wanted to have Remembrance broker a sale for an antique mirror she owned.

Variants

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  1. “The Mirror” by Irving Belateche, in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Irving Belateche