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Perfect Tense
Lisa says:
Every parent has one of THOSE days. Those days that you wonder if you would take it all back, if you could.
(2008) Appears in
Reviews:
...another story that transcends its packaging. Ostensibly the story of a woman who goes back in time to warn her younger self not to make the same mistakes she did, the story then fills itself out and patches in the colours, leaving us with a kind of real-world version of an old trope. Nicely done.
Ben Payne for Not If You Were The Last Short Story
*
As is often her bailiwick, Lisa Mantchev mixes the mundane with the fantastic.
Marshall Payne for The Fix*
Amusing piece, notable for switching back and forth between present and past narrators.
Lois Tilton for The Internet Review of Science Fiction
*
A short, sharp time-travel tale.
Rich Horton for Locus
*
Delightfully trippy, flipping backwards and forwards in time or reality.
Girliejones for Last Short Story
Excerpt:
The door to my dorm room burst open and a woman strode over the industrial carpeting and grabbed me by the front of my t-shirt.
Behind her, a baby wailed and I could smell dog shit.
"Do you hear that?" she screamed. Her hair stuck out at all angles like she'd rubbed a vial of superglue through it. "THAT, my girl, is your FUTURE. Nothing but CRAP as far as the eye can see."
As scared as I was, I sneaked a look over her shoulder.
"My future?"
She nodded"
"With a baby?" My eyes got a little misty at the thought.
"Are you deaf?" she said. "That ain't a fucking monkey!"