Duncan Shields is one of the more prolific writers at
365 Tomorrows—quite possibly
producing 365 time travelers on his own—and for me, this is one of his better
stories.
Normally, I don’t like suicides in stories because I feel that the topic is
often approached in a shallow manner, but in this case, Shields’s hero has a hobby of
tracking and trying to understand teen suicides while he philosophizes about the alternate
universes created by time travel.
I suppose as hobbies go, it’s a little dark. Whatever. It keeps me humble, rooted in
the now, happy to be alive, and aware of death.