Short Story
In the Chocolate Bar
- by Jody Lynn Nye
- in Three Time Travelers Walk into . . ., edited by Michael A. Ventrella (Fantastic Books, June 2022)
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. ”
