Hold-Time Violations
ShortStory 5,161 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
Ellie is trying to catch a train from Boston to DC so she can visit her ailing mother when her sister calls to tell her she needs to "go to the skunkworks and repair the physics of this universe."
Content warnings 1
illness-and-pandemic
Quasar links out; the story lives on Tor.com, where the author gets the click.