Hanger-girl and other lost souls live in a future New York City of crumbling buildings and a ground-level mist that will take you if you let it. The way all this came about involves a researcher who tried to open tiny doors through time.
The mists are time itself, or at least time as it exists here.

Variants

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  1. “Toppers” by Jason Sanford, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2016.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Jason Sanford