Novelette
My Future Self, Refused
- by Adam-Troy Castro
- Lightspeed, August 2022
Adam-Troy Castro, while struggling with grief from his wife's passing, is visited by his future self, who promises three pieces of advice over the course of a year. —Gareth Gordon
I sat down next to him and said, “Is she going to be all right?”
“I can't tell you,” he said, in a tired voice that showed another couple of decades of wear. “That much is against the rules. I'll be yanked back to my time if I even try.”
“Then what good are you, then?”
My future self emitted a soft wheeze that might have been embittered laughter. “I've been asking myself that question since before I was you.”
