SOLVED. short story about creatures that move things forward in time [s]

[Robin]

It was a short story.. I think I read it in the late 90's?? Little creatures that move time forward. Sometimes they forget to move certain things and that's why you go to look for something and it's not there one minute and then it's there the next.

[Kate]

This sounds like a good story. I always wondered what happened to several things.

I'm moving this to the Unsolved folder, where it will get more attention.

[Meredith]

Was this a grade school story? It sounds like one we read in class. I wish I recalled more than that.

[Robin]

Meredith wrote: "Was this a grade school story? It sounds like one we read in class. I wish I recalled more than that."

I don't think it was - I read it as an adult, but maybe it was in a collection of stories for young readers?

[Robin]

Kate wrote: "This sounds like a good story. I always wondered what happened to several things.

I'm moving this to the Unsolved folder, where it will get more attention."

Thanks!! Yes, a friend and I always reference this when we look for something and its not there and then go back a minute later and there it is!~!

[Kirstin]

This sounds just like a New Twilight Zone episode titled A Matter of Minutes. I looked it up and it says it's based on a short story called Yesterday was Monday by Theodore Sturgeon. I'm not sure this is the story you're looking for as it was written in 1941.

[Andy]

Kirstin wrote: "This sounds just like a New Twilight Zone episode titled A Matter of Minutes. I looked it up and it says it's based on a short story called Yesterday was Monday by Theodore Sturgeon. I'm not sure t..."

I agree that this sounds like "Yesterday was Monday" by Sturgeon. It has been collected many times (see list here http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cg...)

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

This is in The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century. The "creatures" are men a little over 3 feet tall.
Moving to Solved.