Prose Placement: There's nothing in this story to suggest the Doctor's appearance are concurrent from his point of view, but assuming they are it feels later in his travels, so between Shada and the Marys.
Perhaps Reversal of Fortune is just a bit too short to fully explore the premise. Graeme Burk's prose captures the tragedy of a life led in the past, something most of us could do with internalising. Which makes it difficult to read in places. It's told in a reverse order from the protagonists perspective and although it seems to be the Doctor's dropping by in the opposite chronological direction it seems more jumbled up than that. Like Greenaway in the same collection, another story about the Doctor visiting someone at various stages in their life. They're also often so short that you can't really talk about them as individual pieces in any meaningful way without repeating yourself or try to do anything interesting. I'm catching up on a number of these Short Trips, which is why the blog's overrun with them at the moment so as not to leave gaps in the Eighth Doctor checklist.
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