Living in the Eighties
by David Ira Cleary
Living in Minneapolis, fifty-something Bob Marshall and his cult-band friend Clayton
discover a website that can move them through time: Bob back to the eighties where he
longs to save his long-dead girlfriend Gretchen from his younger self; Clayton to the
future where he seeks a diabetes cure.
“This web site, Bob,” he said to me, shaking the snow off his black beret, sitting
down beside me at the bar, ”it’s a time travel site. Time travel?”
“Living in the Eighties” by David Ira Cleary, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apr/May 2012.