Hello All,
I know it might be late for some and just about evening for others, but it is my pleasure to announce that the small novel / novella I've been working on has now crossed the line. It has finally been published!
The book began from my response to the prompt below;
[WP] If a person is in grave danger, time will slow down around them to give them a chance to survive. The bigger the danger, the slower the time. This phenomenon may only occur once in a person's life. You are the first person ever to see time come to a complete halt.
It sprawled into a short serial and then into a book and I'm very pleased to share it on here.
The synopsis of the book is as follows;
If a person is in grave danger, time will slow down around them to give them a chance to survive. The bigger the danger, the slower the time. This phenomenon may only occur once in a person’s life. Except this time, Time has stopped. Completely.
It is currently a standalone book, so you don't need a prequel or some set-up to read. It is a fairly short book to immerse yourself in, in the event you're worried about standing a long read.
The cover art of the book was done by -
u/jeffwardart , and I'm enormously grateful for his service, professionalism and amazing art!
You can access the book using the links below, depending on where you're based.
Ebook cost is just £0.99p (which is about $1.20 for US). I haven't planned for a physical copy yet but if there's demand then I'll see if I can sort that out.
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If you do purchase and read, please drop a review or a rating. I will be eternally grateful for such. I've managed to put it up on
goodreads also, for reviews and the like.
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Thanks for all the supports and comments and interactions in the writing of this series. I hope to publish more and do more, so please hang around if you do find a new story that interests you.
You can find me and support me on;
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Thanks once again for everything. I'll leave the first part of the book posted below (the response to the initial prompt) so that you can get a feel for the book :D
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——————————Day 1——————————
I'm writing this all down for posterity purposes. Not as a record, per se, but more as proof that what I am experiencing is not a drawn out hallucination manifested by my mind. As a result, I will have to confess something that some of my family and close friends have whispered and said to my face, even though it has mostly been in jest.
And it is basically this;
I have never been in trouble.
This is somewhat true. I have lived my life in a manner to not be put in danger, and not be in danger in any form. The world as it works, as you dear reader know, is such as to slow down time whenever someone is in danger. My parents have had this happen to them, and it's the reason why I am alive today. Otherwise, a drunk driver would have claimed three souls that day. Most of my friends have encountered the same, though how slow it became varied.
I have never had time slow for me, because I have never been in danger. That's probably the biggest positive. Except, I think I am experiencing my 'one' time. I'm just unsure about what to do because time hasn't slowed down for me.
It has stopped.
Completely.
——————————Day 3——————————
Today is day three and the sun is still suspended in the afternoon sky like a lamp that won't turn off. And because of that, sleeping has been an issue. I think I have had like four or five single-hour nap in the last few days and suffice to say, I'm not coping well.
On the plus side, food is relatively always fresh so I have been eating well enough, I guess. I have spent the waking hours trying to figure out why Time has stopped for me. If I'm in that much of a danger. What could it be. You know.
I walked away from the house, with the journal. I left my belongings somewhere by a police station after a few hours. Maybe it was a robber? or poison? or an allergic reaction? I don't know. I'm currently at Frank's house. Frank Grayson. He’s my best friend, more like the brother I never had really. We work in the same company, though in different departments.
I’ve known him longer than I’ve known most people. I mean, he and I were neighbours growing up. We became close friends and we just never drifted through the years. Same high schools, same colleges and heck, we shared a crush between us. He won that bet though and proceeded to marry her.
He's in the living room with Martha, his girl, and I guess they were (or are) watching a romcom. I knew he wasn't sick. He just wanted to spend the afternoon with his wife. He’s the more romantic one in the relationship, if I’m being frank. And from the way he’s head is tilted towards hers and that wolfish grin he has on…
Let’s just say I kinda wish time doesn't start while I'm here.
But I'd like it to start soon. Real soon.
——————————Day 12——————————
I don't want to write. I don't want to. This is just to ground me in some semblance of reality.
I have been seeing butterflies everywhere I go, fluttering in the wind. I can't touch them. But I see them clearly, flying across my vision. The are beautiful. All majestic blue and fairy like. They fill me with a feeling I can't explain. I know they aren't real but they are as real as the sun, still in the sky.
It just hangs there, mocking me. Laughing at me. Never setting or dimming. It makes me itch all over. I’m hearing sounds that don’t exist. That don’t exist. My eyes are twitching, my body hurts and I just want to sleep. Or run. Maybe both.
I believe I said fluttering in the wind, right? Fluttering. There is no wind. I know there can’t be butterflies. I innately know this but yet the sound is audible to me. I think I’m suffering from some mad form of sleep deprivation, if I’m to self diagnose. I’d google but what’s the internet in a timeless void?
Maybe… I don’t know… I just.
Butterflies…
——————————Day 15——————————
I think I feel much better than I did 2 days ago. Turns out, I needed a good sleep, and no amount of covering myself with a duvet was going to help. I had, in my delirious state, stumbled into a basement and collapsed in the darkness of it.
I never knew sleep was that important, or rather, that dependent on the sun's glare. With the long sleep however, comes a bitter realisation. I'm still the only one moving around. Time is still frozen for the world around except me.
Somewhere in the back of my mind, I've been playing around with the idea that I'm not the only one frozen in time. That maybe someone somewhere is feeling the same thing. This is a depressing thought too, to be honest, as it’s not like I can contact them and they can contact me.
Still, I take some silent solace in the hope that I'm not alone. It’s all I have to do at this point. The alternative might be harder to bear. But happy thoughts.
Happy thoughts.
——————————Day 45——————————
There's nothing to write. I’m still here.
I'm at my parent's house now, about 20 miles away from the city. They are frozen too. Imagine my surprise(!)
Dad has a beer in hand and is sitting in front of the TV. He’s got that celebratory look on his face. The kind he gets whenever he’s watching a match and the team he supports is winning or is about to win.
My mum is out on the small patio of their house. She’s trying to do some yoga, if I’m to assume based on the yoga pants she was wearing and the headband around her forehead. And yeah, I do mean yoga pants.
I’m not going to suffer alone in this shit space. I don’t know who you are, be it future me or someone else.
If you’re reading this, then I’m putting the image in your mind. Deal with it.
——————————Day 70——————————
If the long gaps in days are anything to go about, I guess I can admit that I'm not a good follow-up. Then again, most of the days I see the journal, I don't want to write. I don't want to have to remind myself of my predicament and record it down for the eventual reader.
I mean, what the fuck am I meant to say?
That things are looking good?
I have considered killing myself, you know... A few times even. Almost even went ahead with it once before deciding against it. I have never been suicidal. If I was, and this was time's way of telling me to behave, that would be different, you know?
So I didn't do it. It would be a cheap solution to this problem.
I can't promise I will write tomorrow but I'll try.
Thinking more on it, what if I was suicidal and never knew about it. What if I am legitimately caught between a rock and a hard place? Maybe time is trying to save me from myself, trying to keep me away from doing something disastrous and permanent. Maybe this is all a trial to see the kind of character I have.
I’m just saying shit at the moment. Trying to make some sense out of everything I guess.
Time will have to start eventually. I just have to wait it out.
——————————Day 71——————————
I didn't add it in yesterday but my daily routine has currently been to exercise in the mornings, read in the afternoons and then learn something new (hobby-like) in the evenings.
It's not really important, but I figure you should know... you know?
I'm still here, ground zero in frozen world. Ignoring the loneliness and the static static state of everything, it’s not so bad.
It’s just what it is.
Hobby-wise, I’ve started doing some painting and drawing. Drawing first, then using the paints to ‘bring it to life’ as artists usually put it. I picked up some tips on gardening when I had the errant thought of growing my own produce for the long days ahead before common sense reminding me that it was going to be a fruitless venture.
I cried then. Out of frustration. Out of desperation.
But whatever.
Whatever.
——————————Day 100——————————
Please... start again. Time please start again. Give me a breeze, give me a sunset. Give me something other than this.
Please…
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