Remainder

by Alex Sobel

Release: 7 September 2022
Format: Flash Fiction
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

The setting is necessarily vague, but it seems that in the future, doctors may recommend limited time travel to seek closure for a lost personal relationship.

— Michael Main

She wants to go back more, as far as possible. Maybe before he was sick, even. But two years is the limit the doctor from the company gives her, his voice serious, concerned.

DEBUT

“Remainder,” Daily Science Fiction, 7 September 2022 [webzine].

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Unspecified Year

Timeline Models

Single Static Timeline: She realizes that this has already happened to him, that time wants to move one way.

Themes

Nude Travel: Naked, empty handed.
Seeking Closure: Does she want him to cry? To feel desperate, alone? Guilty?
Wisdom or Consolation to Your Younger Self: the revised plan

Groupings

Daily Science Fiction (periodical): Daily Science Fiction, 7 September 2022

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From some kind of lab setting at an unknown time ⋙ to the same lab, two years earlier. Round trip.