If you control the past you control the present.
All of the others have a light bulb in them. A flare does not. The flare is not like the others. -Hope it helps!
The story title "A Day's Wait" refers to the time the father in the story thinks he has to wait to see if his son's illness will turn into pneumonia. However, due to a confusion between the temperature scales of Fahrenheit and Celsius, the boy believes that he is waiting to die and may only have another day to live.
