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Submitted by Lana Rose
Time keeps randomly stopping around you, and you think it is you who is doing it. Then one night you are at a party, and time stops. Everyone is frozen, except one person at the other end of the room...
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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 ...
The party was still, from every drink to every person. Everything but a woman standing on the other side of the room. She was a small thin woman wearing a cloak way to big for her as she walked, slowly around the frozen room.
“Your one of us aren’t you?” She asked in a curious voice.
“One of who?” Mark asked as he watched her go over to the table where the popular kids were playing blackjack.
“...
“Took you long enough.” Her voice echoed through the silent room that had just seconds ago was booming with noise.
“What do you mean?” he asked.
“There is only one thing each of the time freezes have in common. Me. I have been watching from the shadows, waiting to see if you noticed.”
“What does it mean?”
“It means,” she said slowly, “that you are a powerful asset to me.”
“Powerful?”
“Yes, so powe...
I couldn't believe it—time kept freezing around me, random and inexplicable. At first, I thought it was just me being crazy. But one night during a party at my dorm, everything came to a standstill. Everyone was motionless, caught in a frozen moment. Except for Arthur, my ex-boyfriend, who stood at the other end of the room, looking right at me.
"What are you doing?" I whispered, my heart racing ...
Time had always been a fickle companion to Alex. It seemed to warp and twist around them, sometimes slowing to a crawl during mundane moments and racing ahead during times of joy. At first, Alex thought it was just a quirk of perception, a trick of the mind playing with the fabric of reality. But as the years passed, the instances of time halting completely around them became more frequent, more p...
I’ve gotten used to it.
The way people stop moving in the middle of a sentence, their words cut off and time freezes until a second later they continue talking as if nothing happened. Or when I get so angry, everything stops and so I sigh and calmly walk around them, leave the room, then watch as the confusion starts.
But today was different.
I was at the bar I usually go to with its loud mus...
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