Closing the Timelid
by Orson Scott Card
Centuries in the future, Orion throws an illicit party in which the partygoers get to
experience complete death in the past.
— Michael Main
Ah, agony in a tearing that made him feel, for the first time, every particle of his body
as it screamed in pain.
“Closing the Timelid” by Orson Scott Card, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December
1979.