What could that mysterious woman be doing on the film clip of the 1928 premier of Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus, other than apparently talking into a small brick held to her ear?
Michael Main
Yup, this woman was talking on a mobile phone—in 1928—decades before they were invented.

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  1. “The Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller” by C. R. Berry, in Tigershark Magazine 11, Autumn 2016.
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  3. revised for collection.
    “The Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller” by C. R. Berry, in Million Eyes: Extra Time (Elsewhen Press, October 2019).
  4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by C. R. Berry

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