This Was Your Life (Play It Again, Sam)
- by Mary Pletsch
- Short Story
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “This Was Your Life (Play It Again, Sam)” by Mary Pletsch, in A Bit of Luck, edited by Lisa Mangum (WildFire, February 2023).
Dying from cancer, Samantha finds an old cassette tape that lets her restart her life as a teen over and over again until she gets it right.
—Michael Main
Sam wakes up in science class on the first day of tenth grade.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: presumed time of Sam from 15 through about 35
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: presumed time of 58-year-old Sam
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Contemporary Object Aids Travel: the cassette tape
- Themes
- Fix Your Own Past!
- Repeat until You Get It Right: The travelers voluntarily limit themselves to no more than ten hours of travel.
- Save Your Family!: Initially, Sam's main goal is to save her daughter.
Variants
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- “This Was Your Life (Play It Again, Sam)” by Mary Pletsch, in A Bit of Luck, edited by Lisa Mangum (WildFire, February 2023).