Clarkesworld

Tag Area: Periodical
Short Story

The Art of Navigating an Affair in a Time Rift

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 . . .
Illustration of a young woman in a powered bodysuit sitting on a balcony overlooking a futuristic city.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Timekeepers’ Symphony

Sometime after the era of mass migrations off Earth, the author ponders time and celestial clockworks across the galaxy. —Michael Main
The smaller the flickers in our perception, the more details we notice and the longer time seems to last.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Experimental
  • Time Phenomena