Palimpsest Day
by Gary A. Braunbeck
In his forties, Danny’s parents are long gone as is the hope he had of marrying the
girl he longed for in high school; instead, he runs a used bookstore in his childhood
hometown, takes care of his Downs Syndrome sister, and has a surprising chance to change
everything in the past.
— Michael Main
Live your life as if you were already living for the second time and as if you had acted
the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now.
“Palimpsest Day” by Gary A. Braunbeck, in Past
Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October
2001).