"The Time Traveler's Wife" by Scott William Carter

A story told from the perspective of the wife of a time traveller. After the time traveller leaves for the future and doesn't return, the wife is left nothing to do. To keep herself busy, she begins education herself, speaking out and doing other things that comes full circle when the time approaches for the time traveller to re-appear. It is only at the end of the story is the reason for why the traveller never returned to the past revealed.

• Read from Analog SF, July-August 2005 issue