Swing Time
by Carrie Vaughn
Carrie Vaughn lives just down the road from me, and I met her once at a reading. Her
voice captured me, and her stories do too, although this tale—of time traveling
thieves, Madeline and her nemesis Ned, who gain their ability from dancing—did not grab
me as much as her non-time-travel story, “The Librarian’s Daughter.”
With a few measures of dancing, a charge of power crept into Madeline's bones, enough
energy to take her anywhere: London 1590. New York 1950. There was power in dancing.
“Swing Time” by Carrie Vaughn, in Jim Baen’s
Universe, June 2007.