Million Eyes 0.02

Rachel Can See

by C. R. Berry

Release: November 2016
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: YA and Up
Content: Time Phenomena
Original Language: English

Teenager Rachel is sent to the Pinewood facility because she remembers events that never happened and people who died but are still inviting her to dinner.

— Michael Main

She frowned. “I’m not crazy.”

“I’m not saying you are,” Dr. Flynn said. “But there is a problem with your memory and there are people at Pinewood who may be able to find out wht it is.”

DEBUT

“Rachel Can See,” in Metamorphose: V2, edited by Tammy Davies (Metamorphose Literary, November 2016).

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Some time after 9/11, but still while Rachel is a teen. We’ll guess 2015 because November 13th is a Friday.

Timeline Models

Branching Timelines: The different timelines that Rachel can see are caused by time travelers.
Remembering Different Timelines: “You have an ability we don not yet fully understand, which very few people posseess. You have a different perception of time. A larger perception. You can see beyond. You can see the changes. The work we do sometimes necessitates changes.”

Themes

Top Secret Time Travel: “The work we do has to remain secret, and we cannot continue to operate in the dark with you shining a light on us.”

Groupings

Million Eyes (story series): 2nd published story

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Variants—According to the copyright page of <em>Million Eyes: Extra Time,</em> the nine republished stories in that collection are revisions of their earlier publications.