The Problem of Seans
“Mr. Carr. Last year paleontologists
recovered human bones from a Jurassic lake deposit in Wyoming. They
belong to you. You are now, it seems, five years older than you were
at the time of your death.”
How many Sean replicas he had seeded
the Earth with, and they'd finally found one!
Sean needed money, so he took a job
washing glassware and performing other menial duties “as assigned”
for his physics instructor. He'd gotten a C. in the class, but only
needed to pass it to fulfill the science requirement for his English
degree. Dr. Langford didn't care as long as he showed up on time and
did what he was told.
It was all good until Sean discovered,
while tidying up some messy piles of paper, what Dr. Langford was
working on in his restricted laboratory. That very night, under the
influence of controlled substances, Sean spent an increasingly giggly
two hours sending sandwiches, pencils, and other small objects back
in time. Then he tripped.
Following the subsequent explosion and
fire, it was quite a while before Dr. Langford thought to wonder
where Sean was.
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