Future or Love

Summary

My Ph.D. acceptance letter had just arrived when my advisor, Professor Davies, called—he wanted me to lead a research project in Tehran.

But my girlfriend Ava begged me to decline, urging me to take a local job instead.

She claimed she was from three years in the future, where she’d watched me die in an airborne missile attack.

I believed her. I passed the opportunity to her childhood friend Julian.

Three years later, Tehran was perfectly safe, and Julian returned a celebrated hero.