Time Slip stories
Stories tagged “time slip” on SuperShort Novel.
I Sent My Mother a Ticket Out of 1987
A Columbus daughter mails a bus ticket into her mother's worst year and learns that rescue can look like papers, not disappearance—and that her own birth depended on the week after.
BillionaireB-040Before I Signed the Prenup
Seattle counsel Mara Chen wakes fourteen hours before signing a prenup that later froze her out, and each hour she changes costs a memory of her mother.
Fake MarriageF-023Before the Ninety-Day Clause
A Chicago woman wakes the morning she signed a ninety-day marriage for green-card optics, knowing day eighty-eight is when the papers arrive.
RevengeR-041My Grandmother Warned Me From 1944
An Indiana woman uses a 1944 V-mail warning and a modern title search to stop a cousin's land grab—then learns the letter was a template addressed to a shared middle name.
Secret BabyS-029I Delivered Medicine to a Woman With My Name
An Ohio nurse sends care—not a drug formula—through a bronze mailbox to 1918 and learns the woman who survived was not her blood great-grandmother.
Fake MarriageF-024One More Night Before the Divorce
A Denver woman relives the night before signing divorce papers in the hotel where a fake marriage began, and refuses to keep the lie or the war.
Secret BabyS-027The Bus Out of Columbus
Twelve weeks pregnant, she wakes in a Columbus Greyhound bathroom holding the ticket she already used to disappear after his family paid her to stay gone.
HorrorH-043The First Lie on a Tuesday
A Tacoma wife relives the Tuesday her husband invented a clinic, and finds a support group, a second phone, and a reason not to follow him in.
WerewolfW-036The Moon Sent Me Back
A Pacific Northwest wolf wakes on the rejection platform after a dawn execution, unable to howl the future without the moon taking a pack member at random.
BillionaireB-041The Morning I Took the Fall
A New York family-office deputy relives the morning she took blame for a loan, and learns whose name the COO actually needed.
RevengeR-035The Morning They Framed Me
An Austin compliance analyst wakes on the Thursday a USB of fake kickbacks will be planted in her bag, unable to say she already lived Friday.
HorrorH-050The Package Arrived Eighty Years Late
A Cedar Rapids woman signs for a 1944 parcel bearing her name and learns that wearing the ring lets her hear an unsent letter—at the cost of missing her son's custody alarm.
RevengeR-036The Scholarship My Sister Stole
A Michigan student relives portal-close morning as her sister pastes her essay, then uses her own Doc history instead of a public scene.
HorrorH-042Twelve Hours Before She Died
A Portland daughter wakes twelve hours before her mother's fatal fall, and answering the on-purpose call ages her hands as payment.
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