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Who Is Rudolph Fentz?

by C. R. Berry
It would seem that Jack Finney got it wrong in his 1951 story “I’m Scared.” But never fear! C. R. Berry tells us the true story of how a certain Mr. Rudolph Fentz came to find himself in front of a cab on a busy street next to Times Square.
— Michael Main
At 11.15pm, Forrest was passing through Times Square, New York City, heading for his apartment on West 51st Street during Times Square’s busiest time, theatre letting out time. Carving through the crowds, wishing he’d gone a different way, Forrest noticed a man in his thirties standing in the middle of the road.
DEBUT
“Who Is Rudolph Fentz?,” in Scribble 68, Winter 2015.
VARIANTS
2 English variants
PRIOR WORKS
inspired by “I’m Scared” by Jack Finney
TAGS(SPOILERS!)
Time Periods Time Travel Methods
  • Time Rifts: “We believe that some of the experiments created instabilities in time throughout the city and beyond it, causing certain people and things to become displaced.”
Themes
  • Top Secret Time Travel: He spoke to people, discovered things that were going on in the New York City vicinity which the organisation I represent would rather not be generally known.
  • True Histories: the true story of Rudolph Fentz
Real-World Tags
  • Jack Finney: “Hello, please could I speak to Jack Finney?”
Fictional Tags Groupings
TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)
  1. From New York City, 1876 ⋙ to a road at Times Square, June 1950. Note: Case 111 from “I’m Scared”: Mr. Rudolph Fentz.
INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)
  • Date—The Winter 2015 date of the <em>Scribble</em> issue is an end-of-year date based on C. R. Berry’s December 2015 <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fcrberryauthor.com%2F2015%2F12%2F15%2Fmy-short-story-who-is-rudolph-fentz-is-now-available-to-read-in-scribble-magazine%2F'>announcement of his story</a>.
  • 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.