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Before bed, you put your clock ahead one hour for daylight saving time. When you wake up, you realize you've gone forward a lot more than one hour.

Posted in Fantasy on Mar 6, 2021

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“Mirror Years Ago” by Mariah Lumsden

Submitted to Contest #35

I was left alone. I lived alone, lonesome maybe nothing to inspire me or cultivate me anymore. My bed was the only thing that invited me now, open arms and warm hugs were provided. The ticking of the grandfather clock that lived with me outside of my bedroom comforted me like the beating of a heart. It lulled me to sleep, always steady and ticking throughout my head and in my dreams. It steadied everything. At any moment I could find myself on a sea of choppy and hostile water, and the ticking of the grandfather clock would steady the water ...

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“Our Future is Bleak” by Chelsea Thatcher

Submitted to Contest #35

My eyes flash open to screaming; bloodcurdling, heart-jolting, straight from a murder movie. Springing out of bed I spin around, trying to take in my surroundings. It seems that I am in my apartment but it is different, aged and deserted. The bed, my bed, that I was previously lying on, has moth eaten sheets. The frame is crooked, as if it has been jumped on one too many times, and is slowly decaying from rot. Junk litters the ground forming a maze to maneuver as I push through cobwebs to get out. I rack my brain to figure out how I got...

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“The Rude Awakening” by Lindy Guidry

Submitted to Contest #35

Part One:Whoo!!! Whoooo!!! Whooooo!!!! There is was! Finally! Gerald Parker pulled off his black dot work gloves and glanced down at his Timex. 5 o’clock sharp. “That darn whistle! Never a minute off one way or the other,” he grinned, “She’s always right on time.” He’d been waiting for that sound since the minute he had arrived at the Avondale Shipyard at 7:00 that morning. Now, it was quitting time. Finally, and thankfully, quitting time.Gerald picked up his lunch pail, punched his timecard, and limpe...

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“3011” by Maddy Russ

Submitted to Contest #35

My eyes snap open and I turn to my side curling up close, when I realize there's no blanket to curl into. I am sleeping on what is as hard as a rock, but is oddly comfortable. The logical person in me tells me that I'm dreaming, but the adventurous, imaginative person in me says that this is real, and somehow I've been transported to a new world, where people sleep on rocks. If my brother was here, he'd tell me that I'm just dreaming, or going insane. Probably the latter. But he's not here, and for once, I have peace and quiet. A beeping...

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“Unsterbliche Krieger (Immortal Warriors)” by Laura Prior

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Jesse, a genderfluid college student, born in 2016, got ready for bed. After brushing both her teeth and sopping wet curly hair, the short green locks were quite a nuisance, but she couldn't bring herself to get rid of them, she laid down in the small dorm bunk wondering when her roommate, Addison, would arrive. Jesse sighed, remembering tonight was daylight savings. She had to put their, her and Addison's, clock forward an hour. Jesse pouted before contemplating whether or not getting up to change the time was worth it. There were both pros...

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“A peek into the future” by Lilly Isabelle

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“Sleep tight darling! I love you.” Dina’s mother whispered in her ear and kissed her lightly on the cheek. Dina curled up under the quilt and closed her eyes, welcoming sleep. The weight from her parent on the kid-sized bed lifted as her mother left the room and turned off the lights on her way. Eight-year-old Dina had almost fallen into the world of dreams when her dad’s voice shouted from the living room. “Dina, don’t forget to put your clock ahead one hour for daylight saving time! Waking up one hour too late won’t be fun.” Right, da...

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“Catching Tomorrow” by Tim Benson

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“Catching Tomorrow”           A narrow beam of early spring sunlight found its way through a gap in the window blinds and when Matt rolled over in bed it hit him in the face. He put his hand over his eyes and let out a long sigh. “Well,” he thought, “daylight savings time or not, if I have to lose an hour of sleep I’m glad it’s on a Sunday.” He laid there staring at the ceiling for a few minutes and finally got out of bed.           ...

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“Where Does the Time Go?” by Mckenzie Calvin

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"Mom! Where are the batteries?" I slam the hardware drawer shut with a little too much force, hearing loose screws rattle in protest. "Last time I saw them they were in your room on your dresser." My little brother, Adam, chimes in. I turn to glare at him, his beady little brown eyes sparkling with amusement. "Why were you in my room?" "I needed some tweezers and I knew you had some hiding in your makeup bag. I knew you wouldn't mind. Charlie and I were having a bit of an issue with...something." Adam smiles as he watches my express...

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“Nightmare Novel” by Hana B

Submitted to Contest #35

It was quarter to nine when I decided to turn off the system and go to bed. I had to be all ready for the big day and I did have something that seemed like a plan at least to me after all it was my first job interview with the legendary 'THE ONE' the following day and I am not kind enough to welcome any hurdles. Just in case luck turns against me I've got to have my sword ready for battle and so I tried my best with everything that occured to mind. I got my resume file checked - in detail, my outfit ready; I didn't have much of a say as my m...

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“A Life Less Lived Saves Time” by Ang Harrison

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Before bed you put your clock ahead one hour for daylight saving time. When you wake up you realise you’ve gone forward a lot more than an hour.A Life Less Lived Saves TimeThe shrill whine of the alarm woke me abruptly. It seems harsher than usual causing me to promptly grab the clock and blink into the display. I blinked and blinked. Had I gone back to sleep. My husband peeked round the door drying a dish. “I didn’t know you had the day off honey” I blinked at the clock some more then I blinked at him “why do ii feel like I overslept?’ as I...

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“Dungeons and Doorknobs” by Alexis Klein

Submitted to Contest #35

It was spring forward, and I went ahead and set my clock forward before bed. I crawled into bed and laid down, waiting for sleep to come to me. After several hours of tossing and turning, I finally gave up on sleep. I pulled a book out of the large bookshelf next to my bed and started to read.* * * * *I woke up to a loud banging outside my bedroom. BANG! BANG! BANG! It sounded like a horse was kicking my door over and over again. I sat up, slowly realizing that my 13-year-old self was in a room that most definitely wasn’t mine.“Wha...

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“Time Turned Forward ” by Flora Ellis

Submitted to Contest #35

After a long and boring day of high school, homework, and binge-watching some TV shows I was tired. Naturally, I got ready for bed and flopped down onto my mattress exhausted. How can monotony be so tiring? Before I nodded off I remembered that it was daylight savings time and I needed to wind my clock forward an hour. Although my watch and phone automatically synced to the new time, my grandfather’s old pocket watch needed to be wound. It had been stuck on what is right now the correct time for as long as I can remember because it was missi...

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“Future Tense” by Emilie Conroy

Submitted to Contest #35

One hour ahead.  One day, one year, one decade.  Time had become one.Portia Derinow had never seen the sun.  She knew it had to be floating out there, somewhere, and not just because her cyberteachers had told her so.  After all, New Hadria hadn't drifted so far into the mists and rain that she couldn't tell day from night. But she wondered.  She wondered what it would be like to feel sunlight. Just once, just for a moment. And, as she stared out the window at the endless rain, she decided she wanted nothing more....

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“SPRING FORWARD - A Bit More Than Expected” by SUSAN REIHER

Submitted to Contest #35

ONE           It was an hour before my enforced bedtime. My mother and future mother in-law had overtaken my house insisting my last single evening be as comfortable as possible—translation. Absolute hell.           I was to marry the handsome Robert at a lavish spring wedding tomorrow, all sounded wonderful. Like a spring lamb to the slaughter.           Not everything is as it ...

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“Prelude” by DJ Bundst

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Frank stormed into his room, disturbing the quiet spring evening. Tired and frustrated, tears imminent, he walked to his bed, and the sight of it caused all the heat of his spite to give way to a chill self-pity. How can that man treat me like this, he thought. He threw himself onto his bed, head first into a pillow. He shouted curses into the pillow, which quickly became warm by his face. "Talking so bluntly, like some...expert," he said, and turned himself over like a fish with the pillow still in his face. He wanted to go to the bathroom ...

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