Love in the Time of Con Crud

By Elena Pavlova

Translated from the Bulgarian by Elena Pavlova and Kalin M. Nenov

Reprint from Future Science Fiction Digest in 2019

The bartender says, "We don"t serve faster-than-light particles."

A tachyon enters a bar.

 

Love looks on the past with different eyes. If it could, it would reach back in time to ease the suffering of its love, to make the days of pain be known for joy instead. Time travel stories are often about changing future outcomes, but journeys in time can also find the roots of endearment and compassion.

 

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