Short Story
Grief in the Strange Loop
- by Rhonda Eikamp
- Daily Science Fiction, 23 April 2013 [webzine]
A ten-year-old boy manages to first lose his sister in 11th-century Britain (via his father’s time machine) and then lose his Pop somewhere in the 9th-century Bulgarian Empire. The sister is found fairly quickly, but not until thirty years later does an archeology colleague bring a clue as to exactly where his father might be.
When he’d left the room for a moment Sis dared me to send her somewhere.