Over the summer while campus was empty and the newsroom slow, we received a letter. A few eagle-eyed readers of The Hare Magazine had noticed some unusual discrepancies in the publication’s recent Spring ’25 issue. Several articles had been dated for months far in the future, leaving our readers wondering whether they’d simply pointed out a mistake, or stumbled upon something bigger. As low-level reporters here at The Hare, this seemingly mundane investigation fell to us.

My colleagues and I began by approaching the Managing Editor, whose job it usually is to catch minor mistakes such as these. “Oh yeah, no, that was… definitely— totally, a mistake. Not intentional, at… all,” they told us. This seemed perfectly sound, but the summer was slow and we were a little bored. We decided to follow the board members around anyway. 

Our investigation was beginning to look like a bust until the editorial board met for its summer planning meeting. Our cameras caught each editor as they walked down the hall and disappeared behind a closet door. When we opened the door, the inside of the closet appeared far larger than it should have been. An unfamiliar man with a very long multicolor scarf was present as well, but he refused to identify himself, simply insisting he was a Doctor before the rest of the board ushered him out of the room. 

We may be low-level reporters, but we aren’t idiots. We understood what this meant: The Hare was being run by time travelers. 

We tried to confront the board with our findings, but found their offices empty and personal effects missing. Although they attempted to flee, we caught up to them at the College Park Airport where we convinced them to answer some of our questions. Most pressing was how else had they been using their abilities, if not just to bring us articles from the future?

“No, we’re quite responsible with our time travel abilities. We’d never use them for personal benefit,” said our Editor-in-Chief, right before they and the rest of the editorial board climbed inside a Boeing 747. As the aircraft taxi-ed away, our cameras caught a brief look at the inside, which was plated in gold and trimmed with ruby. A painting of Harold, The Hare’s rabbit-turtle mascot, adorned the outside.

Image Credits: Kenlynn Ingham