Short Story
Of All Possible Worlds
- by Jay O’Connell
- in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2014
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.
