Paean for a Branch Ghost
by Filip Wiltgren
In the far future, a woman who had lived through the Sobibor extermination camp
manipulates the system to go back and rescue the rest of her family.
— Michael Main
“Twentieth century,” said Davos, and I whistled, long, and low, and falling.
“Special assignment,” he said, and I whistled again. I’d never heard of anyone
going that far back.
“Paean for a Branch Ghost” by Filip Wiltgren, Future Science Fiction Digest #14, March 2022 [e-zine
· webzine].