GoKawiilNature Futures publishes short story 'The buck stops with me'
Nature's Futures section has published a short science-fiction story titled 'The buck stops with me,' in which a narrator returns home to find notes apparently written by their future self urging a trip to a bar for 'darts' and warnings about disrupting causality. The narrator exchanges handwritten notes with this future self through hidden locations around the apartment, debating whether the messages are real time travel, a prank, or a hallucination.
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As a work of speculative fiction rather than reported news, the piece offers no factual claims about real-world events; its significance lies in continuing Nature's long-running Futures strand, which uses short fiction to explore scientific ideas like time travel and causality for a scientific readership. The story's ambiguous ending could be read by readers as a meditation on paradox and self-communication rather than a definitive narrative resolution.
- The story is part of Nature's ongoing Futures science-fiction series.
- It centers on notes exchanged between a person and their apparent future self.
- The narrative leaves ambiguous whether the notes stem from real time travel, a prank, or hallucination.
Source: nature.com — Eddy, 2026-09-30
Published there as: “The buck stops with me”
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