Vagrants of Time, Chapter 2: Talking to Myself
Vagrants of Time, Chapter 2: Talking to Myself is now posted.
What to do when your least favorite versions of yourself follows you.
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Usually, vagrants of time are unintegrated, having arranged no fate nor anchoring causality in the year entered; and they are homeless, often eliminating their original years, sometimes through self-cancelling interference. An unusual number self-cancels by murdering his own grandfather, for reasons not clear to investigators.
For this reason, no organized policing of such remote vagaries of anachronism are necessary. They afford themselves as certain degree of rough and ready self-enforcement, and sons and fathers are wont to do.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
