Short Stories 366:255 — “Alex’s Choice,” by Barb Goffman

I'm at the end of Crime Travel today, an anthology of short crime stories with the linked theme of time travel, and the last story has left me with a bit of a perplexing note. I should be clear: I'm recommending this collection, absolutely. There are some stellar stories in there, and this is also …

Short Stories 366:248 — “And Then There Were Paradoxes,” by Cathy Wiley

Crime Travel, an anthology of short crime fiction with the admixture of time travel, really delivers in this, the penultimate story of the book. Here we meet Detective Chief Inspector Trevor Ashcroft and his partner as they walk into what might be the detective's last crime before he retires. He hopes it's an easy one, …

Short Stories 366:241 — “Reyna,” by David Dean

This latest jaunt into Crime Travel, a collection where crime stories feature time travel, has a fascinating premise for the time travel itself: a girl realizes she can sort of pull herself out of herself and float around the house, seeing things she couldn't possibly see, and over time realizes her abilities go further than …

Short Stories 366:234 — “The Last Page,” by Barbara Monajem

While many of the stories in Crime Travel tackle serious crimes (often murder) alongside the theme of time travel, I have to admit I have a soft spot for the tales that aimed things in a more capery direction, and "The Last Page," by Barbara Monajem, has that delightful "unplanned chaos" aspect of capers that …

Short Stories 366:227 — “The Case of the Missing Physicist,” by James Blakey

Marrying time travel to crime stories, Crime Travel's next story, "The Case of the Missing Physicist," from James Blakey, is a kind of noir, cold-war detective story (only with time travel) and I adored it. We've got everything here of the usual set-up: hard-luck detective Mikey Sturgis with a gambling debt hanging over his head, …

Short Stories 366:220 — “The Dealey Paradox,” by Brendan DuBois

I really enjoyed this story from Crime Travel, an anthology that marries crime stories with time travel, in that it tackled a conceit you often hear bandied about whenever time travel comes up: if time travel ever became possible, certainly the horrible things that happened wouldn't have happened: someone would have come back to fix …