After Frederick A. Hayes dies, his daughter Charlotte finds use for various of his things, but not for his Handbook of Mathematical Functions (Abramowitz and Stegan, 1970) which some burglar repeatedly steals as he and the daughter relive the day of the funeral over and over, apparently as a consequence of a time trap that the father set.
My father set a time trap?

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  1. “The Treasures of Fred” by Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey, Daily Science Fiction, 8 April 2016 [webzine].
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Sandra McDonald