Acting on Knowledge from a Self-Visitation

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Short Story

“—All You Zombies—”


A 25-year-old man, originally born as an orphan girl named Jane, tells his story to a 55-year-old bartender who then recruits him for a time-travel adventure. —Michael Main
When I opened you, I found a mess. I sent for the Chief of Surgery while I got the baby out, then we held a consultation with you on the table—and worked for hours to salvage what we could. You had two full sets of organs, both immature, but with the female set well enough developed for you to have a baby. They could never be any use to you again, so we took them out and rearranged things so that you can develop properly as a man.
A man wearing only a skirt stands on a spaceship while firing a ray gun upward
                at another ship.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

In the Chocolate Bar


Steven Mentzel discovered that the original recipe for Abelard chocolate has been removed from the safe where it is kept. He asks for help from Jacques Pepin, and a somewhat unlikely trio show up to help him. —Tandy Ringoringo
“Who are you looking for?” Steven asked.

“Myself,” she said, peering up and down the busy Boston street.“It’s not a good sign. I usually come back to reassure me that we’ve succeeded. I wonder what's holding me up?”

“Maybe it’s just a delay,” the clerk suggested concerned by the look on the tall woman’s face.
 
“You couldn’t get back in time?”

“It’s time travel,” Julia corrected him. “There’s always time to get back where you started. ”
A green drink with ice sits on a brown bar in front of a warped stopwatch.
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel