Short story, Reston bike paths, dead mom, WHFS

Question

Looking for a short story about WHFS radio station ("the weasel"), Reston bike paths, 1980s, dead mom, etc.

I think it was from the mid 2000s and may have been in Sci Fiction webzine (the thing Ellen Datlow edited).

The author was a minor SF writer, newish, but known. C. early 60s birth date. Went to Herndon High School. I corresponded with him via Internet forum comments. Maybe SciFiction had comments below the stories or a forum or maybe it was in Nightshade or some general SF forum.

The science fictional element was some sort of time link through the radio. (I might be mixing up the story "Jeffty is Five" or the movie Frequency with it...but something to that effect.)

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[Edit... can't answer as it is closed!]

I figured it out. It is "Left of the Dial", by Paul Witcover.

Answer 1

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"Left of the Dial" by Paul Witcover features a young man involved in a geeky love triangle in his youth and dealing with the death of his mother, who finds a way to access past broadcasts of WHFS, a local radio station, and thereby to go to the past to confront his mistakes, with the help of his friends, and change his future, whether for the better or for the worse.

It can be read here, also linked from the author's website.