# Short Fiction — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Short Fiction by H. Beam Piper.

- [Time and Time Again](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/time-and-time-again.md): Allan Hartley, a 43-year-old man, awakens in his 13-year-old body in 1945, thirty years in his past. He struggles to reconcile his adult memories with his childhood environment, realizing he must carefully conceal his ad
- [He Walked Around the Horses](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/he-walked-around-the-horses.md): A Prussian lieutenant recounts his journey escorting an Englishman named Bathurst, who holds bizarre beliefs about an alternate history where the American colonists won their independence, leading to a French Revolution,
- [Police Operation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/police-operation.md): Tortha Karf and Verkan Vall review a database of strange events on a Fourth Level timeline, including unexplained fires, disappearances, and 'Flying Saucer' sightings linked to the Ardrath expedition's antigravity disks.
- [The Mercenaries](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/the-mercenaries.md): Duncan MacLeod, a research scientist working on the Philadelphia Project, navigates the intense security measures of the Tonto Basin Research Establishment. He and his wife Karen, along with Kato Sugihara, discover a sec
- [Last Enemy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/last-enemy.md): Dallona and Dirzed present evidence of conscious discarnate survival, leading to political turmoil as Statisticalist and Volitionalist factions clash. Verkan Vall, Dalla, and allies barricade themselves in a dome under s

> 45 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=short_fiction_24_se_1633kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [Flight from Tomorrow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/flight-from-tomorrow.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [Rebel Raider](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/rebel-raider.md)
- [Operation R.S.V.P.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/operation-r-s-v-p.md)
- [Dearest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/dearest.md)
- [Temple Trouble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/temple-trouble.md)
- [Day of the Moron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/day-of-the-moron.md)
- [Chapter I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [Null-A.B.C.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/null-a-b-c.md)
- [Chapter I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [The Return](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/the-return.md)
- [Time Crime](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/time-crime.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [Omnilingual](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/omnilingual.md)
- [Lone Star Planet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/lone-star-planet.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [The Trial Begins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [The Trial Concludes: Jurisdictional Challenge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/x.md)
- [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [The Edge of the Knife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/the-edge-of-the-knife.md)
- [The Keeper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/the-keeper.md)
- [Graveyard of Dreams](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/graveyard-of-dreams.md)
- [Ministry of Disturbance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/ministry-of-disturbance.md)
- [Hunter Patrol](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/hunter-patrol.md)
- [Crossroads of Destiny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/crossroads-of-destiny.md)
- [The Answer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/the-answer.md)
- [Oomphel in the Sky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/oomphel-in-the-sky.md)
- [Naudsonce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/naudsonce.md)
- [A Slave Is a Slave](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/a-slave-is-a-slave.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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