To desire the impossible is only human. Most of us have, at one time or another, wished to relive the moments when we were happiest, magically reshape the world as we would like it to be or even live forever. These impulses are sometimes disdained as childish, born of a failure or unwillingness to accept an intransigent, entropic world. Yet perhaps it’s a childlike resistance to so-called reality that gives impossible desire its irreducibly human ache.
Many such scenarios can be found in Anita Felicelli’s new collection of short stories, “How We Know Our Time Travelers.” Though these 14 miniature crises contain numerous fantastical or science-fictional elements, they are fundamentally explorations of this stubborn, very human attachment to things that cannot be.
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