Appointment on the Barge
by Jack Ritchie
After Professor Bertoldt delivers a speech about his theories on how to send a person
back to an earlier incarnation, he gets two visitors wanting to go back in time because
they claim to be Cleopatra and Antony.
I have hesitated to use a human until I can be positive that no psychic harm will result
to my subject. However, I do believe that last week I did succeed in sending a chimpanzee
back several generations. How far back, I can't be certain. We had a bit of difficulty in
communication.
“Appointment on the Barge” by Jack Ritchie, in
Microcosmic Tales, edited by Isaac Asimov et al. (Taplinger, September
1980).