 Ray Bradbury's 2001 novel "From the Dust Returned" contains a short story ("Make Haste to Live") in which an old woman is born in a grave and regresses in age as time passes.Damon Knight's short story "Backward, O Time" is set on a world where everyone lives life backwards.The story follows a man who is "born" in a car crash, and follows him to the point when he "meets" his mother.