Short Story
The Mirror
- by Irving Belateche
- in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014
A rambling story of a young man who comes to New York, eventually takes over the ownership of an antique store, and comes upon a young woman who has a mirror (with slight time-travel powers connected to the time of the Black Plague) to sell and a heart to capture.
I was working late as usual, when our new employee—Dolores, whom I’d hired myself—came into the back office, now my office, to let me know tht a Rebecca Ward was on the phone and wanted to have Remembrance broker a sale for an antique mirror she owned.