Chronomechanic
Duncan Shields is one of the more prolific writers at
365 Tomorrows—quite
possibly producing 365 time travelers on his own—and for me, this is one of his better
stories.
Normally, I don’t like suicides in stories because I feel that the topic is
often approached in a shallow manner, but in this case, Shields’s hero has a hobby of
tracking and trying to understand teen suicides while he philosophizes about the
alternate universes created by time travel.
I suppose as hobbies go, it’s a little dark. Whatever. It keeps me humble, rooted in
the now, happy to be alive, and aware of death.