Fredric Brown 12 min read

For an instant you think it's blindness, this sudden dark in the middle of a bright afternoon. A second ago you were beside your fiancée in a sunlit patio. Now you stand naked in blackness.

Fredric Brown's 1953 story is a hypnotic, second-person time-travel puzzle, disorienting and elegant. Sharp, ingenious, unforgettable golden-age SF. Read it for a masterful little tale that drops you, quite literally, into the middle of a mystery about your own life.

In its time

Published in 1953, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

12 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Vidmer