Messengers: Short Stories by Wayne E. Hanson

I made up a theory about history. "The pinhole camera theory of the universe" says that the further back you go in time, the narrower history gets, until it passes through a pinhole and then spreads out again only upside down. Maybe the big bang - if there was a big bang - is such a pinhole, and before the big bang there was a universe full of things like oceans and continents and people living in cities with tall buildings, paying taxes and worrying about their kids. Some of these stories ...