"Killing Time" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

A simple tale about memories and where we want to be. An old woman (who may be senile) is offered a chance to spend the rest of her life in memories via a device that can make her believe that she is living in her past. But is living in the past really what she wants to do?

• Read from Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2005 issue