Slight Courage
- by Alex Sobel
- Flash Fiction
- Fantasy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Slight Courage” by Alex Sobel, Daily Science Fiction, 24 October 2022 [webzine].
A woman moves back and forth through her own life, processing her mother’s death.
—Michael Main
Why do you have to leave me? Why now? Her lips move, a gentle separation, but hold a wordless tenure.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Timeline Models
- Noniteracting Traveler: “I move back and forth, but I can’t change anything.”
- Unexplained Timeline Model
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Meeting or Viewing Ancestors or Descendants: Mom, Dad, a daughter
- Travels into Yourself: at age ten and many other ages, past and future
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Slight Courage” by Alex Sobel, Daily Science Fiction, 24 October 2022 [webzine].
Indexer Notes
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- Content—There is mild uncertainty as to whether the narrator is actually mind traveling or simply remembering past times and imagining future times, but I lean toward actual travel.