After spending five years in the late 19th century at the Indian Industrial School for Native American children who were taken from their families, a young girl’s teacher tells her about her future in Manitoba. As with so many stories of grandfather paradoxes, it deals with only half the paradox that it brings up, although I did like the twist.
If someone peeled all of me away bit by bit, what would be left would be you.

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  1. “Cattail Hearts” by Kate Heartfield, Daily Science Fiction, 29 August 2014 [webzine].
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Kate Heartfield