In the time it took you to read this, this optical nerve exploit has already replaced itself with an innocuous tweet.
Accelerate an object for an imaginary time and it gains negative energy; an unprotected gaze and its imaginary impulse may derail your mind.
One of the clockâs hands points into the room. It shows imaginary time, root of and key to negative time.
The trickster crow was once a great musician, but that one time it was tricked itself, it gave up its gift to us. We left only its caw.
Here, you need your own way around time. Mice, to escape pre-daters, burrow in inert sand. Near dust devils, youâll sometimes meet yourself.
A hourglass broke and created this desert of dead time. Its sandstorms are hungry eternities, nothing but skeleton dust has ever left them.
now we add some acid and wait for the time crystals to precipitate ~ see light and thoughts be captured and make them ring with resonance
secret to immortality is to destroy anything else that could eat you, including other people, bacteria, entropy and time
âOne day, my dearâ, says the valkyrie, âyou may enter TĂœnhall, to dine with the forgotten. But your time has not come. Go back.â
Swords of the gods:â”Dayâs Edge, forged from a stolen morningâ”Zahn der Zeit, wrested from timeâs maw itselfâ”Distinction, leaves nothing whole
solid time, frozen and may trap you but also brittle, can be hammered into daggers that stop hearts, fill caskets that preserve loved ones
aggregate states of time:â”liquid, which flowsâ”gaseous, where causality dissolves and temporal eddies dance but leave heavy things unmoved
The mob hunts down the gynoid and burns her at the stake. He watches, helpless. Her plastic face melts and for a short time, she can cry
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Of course there are parasites, but humans have had time to coevolve and breed symbionts to keep more malicious parasites and prions at bay
A time knife to cut timelines with, sever someoneâs purpose and maybe spin a new one - a tool for diviners discontent with mere foretelling.
First make liquid time: filter water through a hourglass. Then drop some of that liquid into your eyes. Enjoy your trip. Enjoyed. Whatever.
Little known fact: When you die, you can file all your good deeds like taxes. It may just shave a few hundred years off your purgatory time.
A walker learns to taste the type of vacuum with time.â”Voids that never contained anything: fresh and stale at the same time
blood pools around the mirrorâ”two knives fall in perfect synchronyâ”two people lock eyes one last timeâ”one walks away - you donât
In his dreams, he wanders the same empty streets every time, never sees another soul.â”Awake, heâs relieved to meet the elven court, anybody
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Life in the eternal roaring twilight is austere but not without joys. There is great celebration every time the hunters bring home skyjelly.
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the wave breaks - and stops, frozen into sea-green glassâ”it breaks again - this time into smaller and smaller pieces, an avalanche of sand
nested irises open, each reveals a different color, youâd think the pupil would show up eventually but no, itâs a yellow cat iris this time
desert naiads of the wadi, years in drysleep, alive only for days at a timeâ”the oldest naiad, protector of an unnamed creek in australia
The mage steps up to the campfire, a roaring column of blue fire ascends and branches out into yellow leaves: The tree stands one last time
We like to visit the part of the city where a nuclear explosion was frozen in time by the cityâs glitch-powered missile defense shield.
cut reality to see if it bleeds: it doesâ”liquid time flows out, traps you like amberâ”realityâs skin heals over and youâre caught under it
In old times, rainbows were in pythagorean, not equal scale. You see the colors bleed into each other slightly differently on old paintings.
Your sleep takes longer and longer: Last time a prince woke you (how rude), this time you find the ruins of a tiny civilization on your body
Ghost and soul are antiparticles moving through time in different directions from the moment of their creation: Death.
Student on a quiz: âThe constance of proportionality varies directly with time.â Where should I even start?
Sand and clockwork fight over who tells the time: Sand ends up jamming the mechanism but only trickles uselessly over the gears.
That one time Mercury stole Jupiterâs shadow and pretended to be him in front of the sun, she kissed him and there went his atmosphere.
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We mastered time travel, mapped the possible routes and found them to correspond to an origami pattern. It seems we live on a paper ship.
Nobody will ever know the artifactâs powers: It gets itself stolen every time someone tries to use it and sometimes just because itâs bored.
Eternal September ends when the Internet achieves near 100% penetration. Perpetual growth shock dissipates and time starts again.
Similarly, even professional boards grow veins and nerves with time. Above a certain number of tiny beating hearts, they become unusable.
Reverse time domains crystallize and spread. The few civilizations yet around have to adapt, some make a killing trading between domains.
Setting: The universe stops expanding and the arrow of time reverses, but unevenly, like a wave on a shore both advancing and receding.
We who have found the Between are an exclusive club. Oh, new blood! Want to watch the Big Bang? There, stand just next to the walls of time.
Chronoleeches suck his time, his limbs age at different speeds, one half of his brain has five years on the other and constantly berates it.
Old idea of mine whose time may have come: VR/AR overlay that lets you spam virtual graffiti and imaginary buildings
The Dust Illuminati conspire over time and space without knowing each other. The Plan comes together either way and requires only knowledge.
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the ruins of shambhala glitch in the sun, fade in and out of existence, dispersed there by a time bomb explosion set in the future