Come-From-Aways
by Tony Pi
I am a sucker for a soppy, romantic time-travel story. In this case, linguist Kate
Tannhauser is one of the members of a team that’s assembled to deal with the arrival of
a man who can be nothing but Prince Madoc of Gwynedd—a twelfth-century Welsh seafarer
who seems to be skipping through time at 75-year intervals—and Kate intends to be with
him on the next skip.
Based on the linguistic evidence, I must conclude Madoc is truly a man out of time.
“Come-From-Aways” by Tony Pi, in On Spec, Spring
2009.