For as long as you can remember, time has always slowed down for you during moments of danger.
This power is automatic and time returns to normal once you are out of peril.
One day, however, the world stops, and you can't figure out why.
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@catsalad Ooh, you're good.
@catsalad terrifying. How am I supposed to get to sleep now?
@catsalad Not quite the same thing, but Iโm reminded of the situation the protagonist found herself in at the end of โThe Twilight Zoneโ season 1, episode 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Peace_and_Quiet
@catsalad If you switch time stopping to time incrementally reversing, this is basically the plot of Erased.
Gah! This is tickling the memory of a SciFi story from my youth, where a guy is given a bracelet to stop time in order to pull off robberies, at museums and galleries.
He works out that the giver is from the future, and they're trying to save Earth's treasures. The from-the-future person agrees, then he says he doesn't want to give the bracelet back, because he sees a newspaper headline about a super-atomic bomb test scheduled for now.
There's my productivity gone until I recall the story title ๐ค๐คฏ
@catsalad That is similar to a Twilight Zone episode. The twist in that one was the protagonist knew what stopped time and had the power to start it, but if he did, he and the city would be destroyed.
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And then you remember that this is what happens when you die and get splatted on the event horizon at the end of the universe.
(Take that, religion.)
@catsalad This is a recurring nightmare for me.
@catsalad the massive city sized ships hovering over every major city in the world?
Was it the catnip or the mushrooms? ๐ค
