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Short Story

Retreat Syndrome

1965

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About this story

A man who remembers killing his wife finds her apparently alive and is told that his memories cannot be trusted. His attempts to establish the truth draw him into shifting accounts of a colonial rebellion and his own part in it.

Chronology

Work history

  1. no later than Dec 23, 1963

    Composition: no later than Dec 23, 1963

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Dec 23, 1963

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Dec 23, 1963

  3. Jan 1965

    First published Jan 1965

    Worlds of Tomorrow