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Chronically Unpunctual
Penny Glitch has a superpower she never her chronic lateness literally breaks time.
Every missed appointment, every delayed arrival, every "running five minutes behind" text doesn't just inconvenience people—it tears holes in reality. Clocks glitch. Minutes duplicate. And occasionally, a confused Roman centurion drops through a temporal rip into modern-day traffic.
When her latest bout of tardiness causes a full-scale temporal incident, Penny catches the attention of Professor Erasmus Chronos and his eccentric team at the Bureau of Temporal Consistency. Between Blip (a poetry-obsessed brass automaton), Agent Tick (a bureaucrat who measures stress in quantifiable units), and an increasingly bewildered Roman soldier, Penny discovers her "problem" might actually be a gift.
But not everyone sees it that way. Mildred Minute—a temporal efficiency consultant with a pathological need for punctuality—believes Penny is a systemic threat who must be contained. Permanently. As Mildred deploys proto-locks, Overclock fields, and weaponized scheduling, Penny must learn to embrace the chaos she's spent her whole life apologizing for.
With help from her mismatched team of temporal misfits, Penny faces the ultimate can she prove that sometimes the world needs someone who colors outside the timeline?
Perfect for fans of whimsical fantasy with heart, Chronically Unpunctual delivers cozy chaos, found family, and the radical idea that being "on time" might be overrated. A delightful romp through bureaucratic magic, misaligned minutes, and the power of embracing what makes you wonderfully, impossibly you.
Every missed appointment, every delayed arrival, every "running five minutes behind" text doesn't just inconvenience people—it tears holes in reality. Clocks glitch. Minutes duplicate. And occasionally, a confused Roman centurion drops through a temporal rip into modern-day traffic.
When her latest bout of tardiness causes a full-scale temporal incident, Penny catches the attention of Professor Erasmus Chronos and his eccentric team at the Bureau of Temporal Consistency. Between Blip (a poetry-obsessed brass automaton), Agent Tick (a bureaucrat who measures stress in quantifiable units), and an increasingly bewildered Roman soldier, Penny discovers her "problem" might actually be a gift.
But not everyone sees it that way. Mildred Minute—a temporal efficiency consultant with a pathological need for punctuality—believes Penny is a systemic threat who must be contained. Permanently. As Mildred deploys proto-locks, Overclock fields, and weaponized scheduling, Penny must learn to embrace the chaos she's spent her whole life apologizing for.
With help from her mismatched team of temporal misfits, Penny faces the ultimate can she prove that sometimes the world needs someone who colors outside the timeline?
Perfect for fans of whimsical fantasy with heart, Chronically Unpunctual delivers cozy chaos, found family, and the radical idea that being "on time" might be overrated. A delightful romp through bureaucratic magic, misaligned minutes, and the power of embracing what makes you wonderfully, impossibly you.
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Published March 9, 2026
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