Jittery. Photogram. Frame. I. Click. Through. Space. Again. I zoom out, and time unrolls infinitely. Each nanosecond cinematised, shot by shot. Until I’m trapped in a single frame.

Beat beat. Pause. Beat beat. Pause. My heart alone now keeps up with the fading echo of a song just a moment ago blaring out of a floor speaker. Beat beat. Pause. Gold chains suspended over necks of bodies hanging mid...

Two days ago, I was at the coffee shop, waiting in line to get my usual morning drink when it happened the first time. One second you could hear the bustling of baristas and the conversations of customer, and the next second it was silent. I know the saying goes “you could hear a pin drop,” but in this case I don’t think the pin would hit the ground. Everyone and everything was completely still. I...

I’m looking straight in her eyes. She’s the only other person in the room who is not frozen. I smile, as I usually do, and the corners of her mouth slowly raise as well. “Do you know what’s going on here?”, I ask her. “We’ve stopped time together”, she replies like it’s the most normal thing in the world. “I didn’t know that was possible! And how are we the only ones not frozen with time?”, her sm...

I took a sip from my red solo cup just as everything around me froze. My friends were paused mid-laughter and a ping pong ball flying across the room had halted, a little too close to my raised hand.

It was happening again, but how? Did I do it? This was the third time in the past week that time had stood still, leaving me unscathed.

Panic rushed into me as I darted my eyes around, searching f...

You know that feeling when you wake up and you’re just out of it? Like, you have that feeling that today is going to be wonky, so why get up?

That was today.

I woke up, I just knew it would suck. Unfortunately, the high school bus waits for nobody.

I won’t lie, I’m not the best student. I’m smart enough, but studying bores me and I end up partying instead.

I’m also a little bit concerned I hav...

Time stopped this morning, while i was enjoying my morning coffee. Time stopped this afternoon, while i bought groceries at the local market. Time stopped for no one: no one, except me. While they froze, i continued on my way. And then, time stopped again.

It was at the party late that evening when it happened next. The classical music danced with its listeners, and the chatter swirled throughout...

“Don’t you see now I control everything.”

Mary looked down the hall at a dark silhouette walking towards her.

“It’s been me the entire time, I’m the one who hacked your phone and sold your stories to the Russians.”

The silhouette was now in clear sight.

“Troy?”

“Oh hunny, call me King.”

“You don’t, your voice..”

“I’m a master of disguise Mary, I wear many hats you could say. I’ve been watching you...

My heart stops. I’m barely breathing as she starts to make her way across the room.

“Honestly Mary… I was starting to think you’d never figure it out.”

“Who- How do you know my name?” I stutter breathlessly, bumping into a frozen couple mid-make out behind me.

“You don’t remember me?” She croons, the corners of her mouth pick up in a feline smile, as she plucks a martini right out of the outst...

Let me introduce myself, I'm Jake Sutherford and I am a freak. Now let me explain what I mean, my entire life I've had the random power to stop time. Before you go calling me crazy, I won't deny it, I need to give an example. It started when I turned 18. I had a huge party with all my friends and family at my parents house and one minute I was grabbing a drink, no it wasn't alcohol and yes I alrea...

I’ve never believed in coincidences, until I found myself with the middle of the biggest that my life would ever know. It started two weeks ago, when I believed I had superpowers.

Not weird or inane ones either, I could spend extra time finishing exams so I could surprise the roommate I complained I was gonna fail to. However she flipped the tables when she showed me a 97 she got on her musical ...