I buried myself in my Flash comic, pretending to be unaffected by Grandpa’s inability to remember me.

Pointing to the cover, Dad whispered, “Remember when your hero got trapped in the Speed Force, and he started experiencing time out of order?”

I nodded.

“My hero’s going through the same thing.”

David Dezell Turner is an astrodynamics PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder. When he isn’t giving directions to real spaceships, he’s writing about fictional ones. Check out more of his work at daviddezellturner.com.