I liked the idea for this story a lot more than I liked the story itself. Rather than having a universe where every choice splits off multiple future time lines, it works in reverse. Rather, multiple time lines converge to single events. The items in the title are names of weapons which have interesting effects on the time lines that converge to the point of their use. Flower, for instance, wipes out the target’s forebears. Unfortunately for me, the story is told in a little bit more experimentalist fashion than I was capable of understanding. Other than the broad outline I couldn’t follow. The interview with Lee that followed the story in Lightspeed helped some. ( )