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eBook Category: Science Fiction Hugo Award Nominee
eBook Description: When Commander Aaron Eliassen returns from a NASA deep space mission, he is thrown into a featureless jail cell with no outside communication from anyone. Finally, his friend Gabe visits and explains that Aaron has been thrown back in time, and that they're keeping him locked up to prevent paradoxes. But when Aaron escapes, he discovers that something else must be going on...

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Analog, 2004
Fictionwise Release Date: April 2005

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Words: 6134
Reading time: 17-24 min.
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Commander Aaron Eliassen threw the tray across his cell. It smashed against the far wall, covering the white molded plaster in a mix of browns, greens, and reds. The tray slid down to the floor, clattered for a moment, then fell still.

Aaron glared around the small, featureless white room at nothing in particular. For the twentieth time, or the hundredth, or perhaps the thousandth, he ran and smashed himself against the locked door, hoping that perhaps this time he would break apart the unseen hinges.

As before, the door refused to budge. All he succeeded in doing was getting his blue jumpsuit even filthier than before.

Aaron placed his eye against the crack between the door and the wall, again trying to peer through to the outside, to get some idea of what lay beyond. He tilted and twisted his head to get some sort of view, but all in vain.

He shuffled back from the door until he stood in the center of the room, then looked up at the ceiling. Although he had not yet spotted a microphone or surveillance camera, he assumed he was being monitored. "You hear me?" he shouted. He pointed at the mess of food that lay in a lump on the floor. "Did you see that? I'm not going to eat anymore. Not until I get some answers."

No one responded. Eliassen walked over to the discolored wall and stared at the gloppy mess of stew, asparagus, and gelatin. His stomach rumbled slightly, but he ignored it.