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Tag Area: Periodical
Short Story

The Store of the Worlds


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

The Singular Visitor from Not-Yet


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

The Utterly Perfect Murder


A moving story of an outcast boy who continued to feel the pain of how he’d been excluded throughout his adult life. You’ll need to decide for yourself whether time travel creeps in. —Michael Main
I tossed the few bits of gravel and did the thing that had never been done, ever in my life.
An abstract design of a person in a bed seen through a double-hung window inset
                in a stone wall.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Fantasy
  • Mainstream
  • Debatable Time Travel
Short Story

The Toynbee Convector


You’ll enjoy this story, but I’ll give away no more beyond the quote below. By the way, if you get the original publication, you’ll also see Kurt Vonnegut and Marilyn Monroe. —Michael Main
What can I do to save us from ourselves? How to save my friends, my city, my state, my country, the entire world from this obsession with doom? Well, it was in my library late one night that my hand, searching along shelves, touched at last on an old and beloved book by H. G. Wells. His time device called, ghostlike, down the years. I heard! I understood. I truly listened. Then I blueprinted. I built. I traveled [. . .]
Futuristic white buildings with rounded corners, tall spires, and black stripes
                sit beside an hourglass on a pedestal.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

The Time Exchange


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

The Millennium Express


Reconstructions of Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and a 27th-century man are blowing things up at the close of the fourth millennium. —Michael Main
Or you, Pablo: you of all people ought to prefer to have all those paintings and sculptures sink unharmed into the ground rather than having them be blown sky-high.
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  • Science Fiction
  • No Time Phenomena