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Submitted to Contest #337
The doctor called it "Chronostatic Dissociation," but in the dark, quiet corners of our house, we just called it the Slip. It wasn't a gift, and it certainly wasn't a superpower. It was a cancer of the clock. Elias Thorne was a runner, yes, but not by choice. He ran because when his heart rate hit 160 beats per minute, the world finally stopped shimmering. High-intensity aerobic stress was the only thing that pinned him to the present, like a butterfly skewered to a board. When he sat still, he began to drift. He lived his life in the red zo...
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