"The interweaving stories in 'Recurrence plot and (other time travel tales)' present characters whose stories challenge the notion that time flows in only one direction. If you want to understand what is happening at any given point in time, you cannot only look to the past for clues. You must consider the future. A journalist races against time itself to expose the entity preying on young male teens in Philadelphia. A crystal, memory-storing bracelet transports a young mother back to the day of her own mother's traumatic death. An unknown force of nature causes time to start flowing backwards ... Using quantum physics as an imaginative landscape, Phillips' debut speculative collection 'Recurrence plot' attempts to walk the fine line between fiction and reality, fate and free will, and past, present, and future."--Page 4 of cover.