Disaster Revisited

What would you do if you knew you were dying, and the only thought that consumed you was that the world would continue without you? Jason Wall, a wealthy man with a terminal diagnosis, finds his mind fixed on an impossible solution: travel back to the dawn of humanity and kill the first human, thereby erasing the entire species and its suffering. But when he arrives in the prehistoric past and encounters the First Man and the First Woman, something begins to shift in his tortured psyche. This mid-century science fiction novella is less about the mechanics of time travel than about the darkest corners of the human heart. It asks whether we would destroy everything out of jealousy, and whether confronting the raw, elemental truth of existence can redeem a life consumed by despair. A compact, unsettling meditation on mortality, loneliness, and what it means to be alive.