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Henry Back for the First Time at the Cafe

Sorry if you missed Henry Back for the First Time at the Café! You can still get it as a standalone eBook here. It will also be included in a collection of Café stories this summer, in both eBook and Print editions.

In the meantime, you can now get all of the stories from 2025 in STORIES FROM THE CAFÉ: VOLUME ONE and STORIES FROM THE CAFÉ: VOLUME TWO

Thanks for reading!

Time plays funny games

Henry remembers the café, even though this technically marks his first visit. A lovely place full of warm people who don’t know him. Yet. And only some of them will remember. Or maybe they won’t. Henry can never be sure.

But every time he comes to the café, he must complete his job. Failure means disaster in ways difficult to anticipate. Every job hinges on paying very close attention to details.

And on the precision of the single moment of time.

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HENRY BACK FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE CAFE Copyright © 2026 Kat Simons

All Rights Reserved. No part of this story may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

This story is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously, and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locale or organizations is entirely coincidental.

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