Gabriela is an eliminator, an assassin traveling through time to prevent the intercorporate wars. And save her son. Although she adores the era's music, the memories accompanying the time jumps are painful, her questioning of her employer's motives increases, and a masked man pursues her. She refuses to kill a scientist whose work seem crucial to humanity, and she is extracted back to the present, 2059. Allan Dyen-Shapiro is a Ph.D. biochemist, currently working as an educator in Southwest Florida. He has published once before with Dragon Gems, "Magic Notwithstanding, The Family Lawyer Does as Instructed" ran in the Summer 2023 anthology. He has also sold short fiction to venues including Flash Fiction Online (where he is a First Reader), Dark Matter Magazine, Factor Four, Small Wonders, and numerous anthologies.His standalone eco-fiction novelette "The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds" came out digitally and in paperback from Rampant Loon Press in 2025. He also co-edited an anthology of speculative fiction set in the Middle East.Allan is an active member of SFWA and Codex. He blogs on issues of interest to his readers at allandyenshapiro.com, where you'll also find links to his stories.