Short stories by Michael A. Burstein

Listing 5 stories.

A science fiction fan travels back in time to the 1930s in order to locate Isaac Asimov's famously lost first manuscript.

In this science fiction story the last holocaust survivor dies, leaving his granddaughter to carry his memories through a recording technology. The granddaughter of the last holocaust survivor struggles with her grandfather's death, and family tensions around her gentile boyfriend while crafting a plan to shut up holocaust deniers once and for all.

A young writer sends an email to his favorite deceased author and receives a surprising response

An aging writer with dementia decides not to tell his daughter about his condition. One of his characters—who is real in a parallel universe—comes to take him to a different world before he succumbs to dementia.

A Black boy living in Harlem, NY finds a boy's "spex" — technology to enter a virtual world —and uses it to safely attend a good school. After he is caught, his teacher helps sneak him into the spex system by disguising him as an upper middle-class boy.