Of All Possible Worlds
by Jay O’Connell
When Costas Regas bonds with his 90-year-old landlord, Mr. Hieronymus, and discovers that
the old man is editing the 20th century, that’s a fairly cool idea on its own, even
without the possible smidgen of backward time travel that occurs when Costas writes
poetry.
Contained within the poem was a way to close a loop of time, pinch it off, and discard
it. I’d broken time.
“Of All Possible Worlds” by Jay O’Connell, in
Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2014.