First appeared in Writers of the Future 36, edited by David Farland.
Nathan Reed keeps killing a man to reset, to be with his wife, Holly, again. Each time he does, she dies again.
Comment with some spoilery bits:
Ning has a great speculative conceptual framework here. Also, more powerfully, she develops an emotionally potent climax.
Perhaps it seems small, but the justification of events--why do these events occur in speculative terms (some sort of time travel, involving magic or science)--may be what prevents the opening from being intriguing (one man killing another) and a denouement that doesn't quite sing although it has some resonance.
But once the story kicks in, it will rev you to its conclusion.
Ning's work has appeared in Pod Castle, Cosmass Infinities, and elsewhere.
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