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The Minute
Time traveler April Colson is stuck reliving the same minute over and over again.
It's 2021, and April has volunteered for a time travel experiment in which she gets to relive one minute of her life from 10 years ago. She would have happily relived any moment from the past in which her now-deceased wife is still alive, but the minute she gets to revisit is even sweeter than usual: it's a short moment of peace before the day of their wedding in 2011. However, when something goes wrong and the minute keeps repeating itself, April must find a way to break the cycle before the scientists pull the plug on the experiment and end her life.
It's 2021, and April has volunteered for a time travel experiment in which she gets to relive one minute of her life from 10 years ago. She would have happily relived any moment from the past in which her now-deceased wife is still alive, but the minute she gets to revisit is even sweeter than usual: it's a short moment of peace before the day of their wedding in 2011. However, when something goes wrong and the minute keeps repeating itself, April must find a way to break the cycle before the scientists pull the plug on the experiment and end her life.
75 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 16, 2013
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January 22, 2014
This one was sort of especially fun to write, because in a way it combined two of my guilty pleasures: The movie Groundhog Day and all things related to time travel. In a way, Groundhog Day is a time travel movie, because the main character goes back in time to the beginning of the day repeatedly. And I've always enjoyed thinking about what I would do if I could relive one day over and over (I'd definitely have fun getting to know all the people in my world, as well as picking up new skills that one can only learn through extensive practice, much like Bill Murray's character did).
Ideally I'd have written a book that would have had a longer time span involved, but I didn't want to write a book that would have ended up just like Groundhog Day. And...I gave myself roughly two weeks to write this one, and to help me stay within that constraint while still allowing myself to present a complete story, I limited the time span to one minute. And of course unlike Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day, the main character of this book knows what's going on. This gives her an advantage, though her world is so limited by the one minute that she can't enjoy herself as much as the character from Groundhog Day. Plus, there's a threat of death going on (what if they unhook her from the time machine while she's stuck back in time?).
But I think I'm just rambling now, because I love time travel. What I mean to say is, this may have been the most fun I've ever had writing a book.
Ideally I'd have written a book that would have had a longer time span involved, but I didn't want to write a book that would have ended up just like Groundhog Day. And...I gave myself roughly two weeks to write this one, and to help me stay within that constraint while still allowing myself to present a complete story, I limited the time span to one minute. And of course unlike Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day, the main character of this book knows what's going on. This gives her an advantage, though her world is so limited by the one minute that she can't enjoy herself as much as the character from Groundhog Day. Plus, there's a threat of death going on (what if they unhook her from the time machine while she's stuck back in time?).
But I think I'm just rambling now, because I love time travel. What I mean to say is, this may have been the most fun I've ever had writing a book.
March 20, 2016
I just happened upon this short story from a Facebook link posted by one of my long time Internet friends. Books and movies about time travel pique my interest and as seems to be the theme for me this winter season, everything I've been reading involves time travel. Plus the short story, The Minute by Aaron Dietz, was just 99 cents on Amazon.com.
I was drawn into the story within the first few pages. The idea that physically time travel is impossible, but that science had discovered a way to send our consciousness back to a specific point in time was intriguing. And to have a limit of one minute on your time travel experience, which one minute would you choose to relive? And honestly, what could go wrong in the that one minute?
More on my blog, Second Run Reviews.
I was drawn into the story within the first few pages. The idea that physically time travel is impossible, but that science had discovered a way to send our consciousness back to a specific point in time was intriguing. And to have a limit of one minute on your time travel experience, which one minute would you choose to relive? And honestly, what could go wrong in the that one minute?
More on my blog, Second Run Reviews.
August 6, 2014
What a great short story! I loved it. A woman participates in a time travel experiment and ends up
Reliving the same minute over and over again. Well written and what a great idea.
Reliving the same minute over and over again. Well written and what a great idea.
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