Tesseractivity

I found the second of two stories I was once sure I'd posted before, but which I must have held back for some reason. I was about to post it here tonight, and in fact the text was already in place when I reconsidered. Instead, I'm about to submit the story for consideration in Tesseracts 17. 

I've only sold one work of fiction in my life, but perhaps this will be the second. The story is, at worst, free of the sort of embarrassing errors in science and logic that marred "One Second Per Second." Wish me luck!