A Gift in Time
by Maggie Clark
From his little office where he works for an esteemed antiquities dealer, Mr. Mouse
Musset wills himself back in time to retrieve objects in a way that only he can, but the
secretary above him—the very secretary that Mouse worships—does not appreciate
Mouse’s finds.
I have had quite enough assurance, Mr. Musset, from the carbon
dating Mr. Hazlitt had performed. Granted, the calligraphy is clever, and the materials
all true to form—but how old would you say Beowulf is? Tenth century? Maybe eighth?
“A Gift in Time” by Maggie Clark, in Clarkesworld
92, May 2014.