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Amore by Laura Wolf
Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks
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Another Perfect Day by Steven Popkes
Bad Manners by Chris Manby
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Busy Horsies by John Schindel and Casi Lark
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Church of the Dog by Kaya McLaren
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Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James
A Day in the Life of my Great Brit Book Tour by Adriana Trigiani
Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
The Dinosaur Train by James L. Cambrias
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
El Tigre by John H. Manhold
Five by Julianna Baggott
Flip and Flop by Dawn Apperley
The Fourth Watcher by Timothy Hallnan
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
A Grave Mistake by Stella Cameron
The Great Waldo Search by Martin Handfold
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
I Know a Woman by Quinn Dalton
Leaving a Light On by Claire LaZebnik
Lifetime Loser by James Ross
Moving Day by Cindy Chupack
An Open Letter to Earth by Scott Dalrymple
Persistence of Memory by J. M. Snyder
Poison Victory by Albert E. Cowdrey
The Political Prisoner by Charles Coleman Finlay
Pump Six by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Regent's Knight by J. M. Snyder
Shades of Darkness, Shades of Grace
Simplexity by Jeffrey Kluger
Smoky the Baby Goat by Mary Elting Folsom and Veronica Reed
There's a Cow in the Cabbage Patch by Clare Beaton and Stella Blackstone
The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer Weiner
The Two-Month Itch by Sarah Mlynowski
Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate
Yoga Babe by Lauren Henderson

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Another Perfect Day: 08/22/08

"Another Perfect Day" reminds me most of Connie Willis's time travel books. As this short story by Steven Popkes is on the lighter side, I would say it's more like To Say Nothing of the Dog than Doomsday Book.

A man polishing his gun on the anniversary of his wife's death is visited by a man named Wilson Taylor who claims he' from the future and wants to stop his suicide. There's only one problem, he's not the right man, not in the right state and it's not the right year.

Usually what follows in these type of time travel stories is the person traveling from the future gets stuck for a while and the person in the past can't comprehend the notion of time travel. Not so in this story. What happens instead is more amusing than the typical plot.

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