Christmas Story 2025 Redirection of Greed by Robert Ford Download PDF December 24, 2024 Charles enjoyed working on a whiteboard. The equations were complicated, and he was often stumped, but it was a wonderful puzzle. This was his theoretical physics hobby work. Usually, he would keep the white board facing inward to his study wall so as not to be distracted. Tonight, with it feeling quiet, he had an hour to work on his favourite…
Christmas Story 2024The Christmas Ghost ConsultantBy Robert Ford Download the PDF December 23, 2024 Chantal entered her apartment and quickly popped the gun out of the secret compartment in the wall. She shot the intruder twice in the chest. He was sitting in her favourite chair. “Whoa, whoa, whoa! Nice shootin’, girl!” Did he just paraphrase Ghostbusters? “Ouch,” he said, “I didn’t even get a chance to say, ‘sorry for barging in like this’.” He…
Christmas Story 2023 The Ghost of Probabilities By Robert Ford Download the PDF December 23, 2023 – 6 PM The guy who said he was a ghost told me that you didn’t have to be actually dead for the job. Nearly dead would do. It’s not only that I was skeptical, but I also knew I was on hydromorphone and other drugs whose names ended in the syllable ‘doan’. “You have the ability,” I said,…
Christmas Story 2022Four Heads are Better than OneBy Robert Ford Download the PDF March 21, 2042Metro Toronto Convention Centre “It turns out that time travel is more of a math problem than an engineering challenge.” Johnson Telgrave, PhD, MS, BEngSpeaking at the 2042 IEEE International Physics Symposium December 24, 1978 (past his bedtime) John was a little kid when he first saw the 1951 film version of A Christmas Carol. Wouldn’t it be cool, he…
Christmas 2021 The Spectre, The Spook, The Scientist and The Storyteller By Robert Ford Download the PDF here December 21, 2021 I am dead. It’s a literal condition and I accept it. What I don’t accept is that I’m done here. My favourite place to hang out is the Vancouver Police Department headquarters on Cambie Street. There’s always intensity there. And so much to learn. Interrogations are the most interesting. Those suspected of crimes try…
Christmas Story 2020Time Travel Tours Download the PDF Here by Robert Ford December 24, 2055Underground BunkerBoston, Massachusetts Isaac Czerniak, PhD Quantum Physics, greeted his next clients at the elevator. “That’s a heck of a long elevator ride,” said Mr. Jenkins, who, with his young female companion, stepped from the lift. “Our deep bunker,” said Isaac, “helps with security and shields our equipment from unwanted electromagnetism. Come this way and we’ll start preparations.” They proceeded down…
Christmas Story 2019 What Can One Person Do? By Robert Ford Download the PDF Sunday, July 14, 2019 — 1 AM Key members of the APF (American People’s Front) were drinking in a bar on the outskirts of Tacoma, Washington. Karl had mapped out the entrances and exits of the bar a couple of days earlier. Closing time was approaching and there were only about a dozen people inside. The music was still playing loudly.…
Author’s note: this story is a sequel to 2013’s "Psychic Movements." https://robertfordfiction.com/2013-psychic-movements/ Christmas Story 2018 London Calling Robert Ford Download the PDF Sunday December 16, 2018 I do not surprise easily because I’m psychic. My phone booped with a text message from Sylvia. “I need your help.” Sylvia was an ex-girlfriend who worked for the British government in the international criminal investigation division of Scotland Yard or the Secret Service, depending on the whims of…
Download the story as a PDF here. This year’s story was inspired by my son Tim, who is 9. Earlier this year he asked me to help him write a comic book series. He’s doing the drawings. His ideas for his comic books are wonderfully huge. To help him, I offered to write a back story that would help create boundaries around his comic book universe. The ending is therefore a big cliff hanger. The…
Download the story as a PDF here. This year’s story is dedicated to my mother who, last year, asked me to write something funny that she could understand. I inferred from this discussion that science fiction and time travel were right out. You be the judge if this is funny! Or, for that matter, if you understand it. I await Audrey’s response. Nervously. Angel of Redemption The Assignment Anna the Angel (in training) sat in…