‚Not again!‘, I thought annoyed. I was just at the brink of cheering with Angela and Mike, when time stopped again. My glass loudly clinked with theirs, but while I moved my hand with the champagne flute back to myself, they just stopped moving. Their arms stretched out. Their eyes looking straight at each other. The creepiest thing was their open eyes. Not blinking. It still freaked me out every ...

Normal. A beautiful word. I wish it could describe me. It used to, but when it comes to time and magic that's not possible. I walk into the party and look for my boyfriend (I don't have one I'm just imagining that). Then everyone freezes. Except for a girl. Her hands are up as if she was being arrested. Her black hair drapes over a gray dress, green eyes staring at me. She walks over to me, walkin...

I’m drunker than a sailor with daddy-issues.

This college party is absurd. I couldn’t if I was on the dirt or if I was floating.

Turns out I was actually throwing up into the corner of the backyard. Before that happened, I was outside—well… taking shots— with crowds talking and someone actually dived off the roof into the pool.

I thought that was only in moives.

Now I’m in my pink T-shirt, coo...

“Come on!!” Addy groved on the dance floor, holding her red plastic cup up in celebration.

I shuffled to the dance floor, so much for fitting in. In a sudden motion, Caleb bumped into Abby, knocking her drink. It was about to fall on me. I braced for impact, expecting to p wet from whatever she was drinking, but nothing was there.

I looked up, seeing her frozen emerald eyes, shocked. I...

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...

I was writing a test, and I was stuck. It was my university final, and the very last test I would ever take. But I needed more time.

I looked up at the big stopwatch on the board. It was making me anxious.

0:25.

0:24.

0:23.

0:23.

Wait. The stopwatch had stopped ticking.

I looked around me and noticed that all the other pencils had stopped moving. I had more time.

_Think, Penny, think_. I t...

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...