Back
by Susan Forest
Alan and Victor are carrying out a careful sequence of time-travel experiments with slips
of paper, flatworms, stray cats, a potted palm and chimps, with the only problem being
getting the time traveler back from the past.
It was while Alan and Victor were touring the warehouse with the real estate agent tht a
slip of paper bearing the words, “It worked,&rdqup; materialized on a desk in the
office.
“Back” by Susan Forest, in Analog, June
2008.