Short Story
A Gift in Time
- by Maggie Clark
- in Clarkesworld 92, May 2014 [Webzine accessed at http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clark_05_14 on 2 August 2021.]
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?
