Your Cat
- by Beth Cato
- Flash Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Your Cat” by Beth Cato, Daily Science Fiction, 21 September 2021 [webzine].
You travel back in time to save your childhood cat in exactly the way that you know she was saved.
—Michael Main
You have traveled thirty years back in time to save your cat.
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- Time Periods
- Timeline Models
- Multiple Naive Timelines: Given that the adult-you in the story is making the past materialize that he or she knows did materialize, I’d say that story is nicely set up to have a single static timeline. But neither adult-you nor the writer seems to realize that is even a possibility given the line: In some alternate universe, Malibu's prognosis must remain grim beyond this date.
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Booths, Wardrobes, et al.: Although not described as a booth, it is claustorphobically confined for the traveler and the cat together.
- Themes
- Animals or Small Children Sense Time Travelers or Anomalies: Malibu recognizes adult-you.
- Save Your Family!: Yes, we think your childhood cat is in your nuclear family.
- Self-Visitation: At the end, you hand Malibu to your younger self.
- Groupings
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- “Your Cat” by Beth Cato, Daily Science Fiction, 21 September 2021 [webzine].