Short Story
The Art of Navigating an Affair in a Time Rift
- by Nika Murphy
- Clarkesworld #189, June 2022 [print · e-zine · webzine] [Webzine accessed at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prior/issue_189/ on 1 June 2022]
Audra Cobb is pulled through time rifts from one parallel universe to another with a bit of time travel thrown in. I think the parallel universes are a literary mechanism to explore daydreaming about what might have been while under the spell of limerence. —Michael Main
The egg yolk path glistens in my periphery and my fingertips tingle. Once the rift closes, we go back. Back to before the rift ruptured. Back to when Joseph first moved in and before we . . .
