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When not busy with other things, Sean Monaghan occasionally runs writing programs for children and adults at his local public library in provincial New Zealand. Recent fiction appearances include pieces for Analog, Midnight Echo, and Pulphouse. Sean’s new story for Asimov’s, and his first time-travel tale in these pages, started when he asked himself the question . . . Back in the day, when I was house sharing with Brendan, he would come home with, like, forty bananas. The rest of us—Clea, Mel, and me—went nuts at him, the first time. This was house money he was spending. What a