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Vagrants of Time, Chapter 2: Talking to Myself

Posted March 30, 2022 By John C Wright

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.

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Vagrants of Time, Chapter 1: Knowing the Future

Posted March 23, 2022 By John C Wright

Vagrants of Time, Chapter 1: Knowing the Future is now posted.

I know the future!
Gratuities accepted.

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This tale is set in the curious and often overlooked subculture that arises periodically in oxbows remote from mainstream timelines, where policing is lax.

Unaccompanied time travelers, lacking any visible means of support or escort from the Final City, are known to drift from age to age, living by smuggling, gambling, fortune-telling, or other petty crime, seeking revision opportunities.

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