10 Minute Hourglass Novels & Stories

He walk slowly while peek out in thet window of their classroom near the hallway. Guard was already on the stairs, he tried to look everywhere on the first floor but he can't find Felix. He continuously step up in the stairs. And when he reach on the second floor of the building. He saw Felix peeking at the window. "You!" The guard shouted and walk fast towards where Felix were. A sudden ringing of the school bell signal the students to moved to their next class. 'Krrrrinnnnggg!' A sound of the school bell. It was at the same time shouting of the guard and ringing of the school bell that is why Felix didn't heard the shout of the guard.

"Why would he let a girl compete?" I hear all kinds of gossip around me. My father told me not to mind them. I just need to show them what I got. Shortly after, the showcase had started. The first event was the quiz bee. All the contestants were in their place. All we had to do was press the buzzer in front of us if we knew the answer. "First question, the Sengoku period lasted for how many years?" without hesitation, I pressed the buzzer first. "133 years." I answered. I was correct and the crowd cheered. Question after question I got the answers correct. It was time for the last question and I had the lead in points.

There were words showed and an hourglass in the wall, Joy was watching the rule carefully so she was not aware that Baby was flying towards the totem carrying with Happy. "Every participant will need to stay on the same piece and is permitted to practice power to move the pieces to swap places. The pieces can only move in parallel direction. You have one hour to move yourself to the open space. If participants cannot finish the game within required time, you need to start over again." The sand in the hourglass on the stone wall began to run. Joy waited for Sunshine to speak first, but it had come to her notice that Sunshine was silently counting the pieces.

It was exactly 1pm in the afternoon. “Today. In the next 10 hours.” “What?” she screamed in shock. Just 10 hours. Ten hours to burn down an empire- or die, while trying to.

And I am tired of being so grown up. "What about the bus?" I ask. He checks his phone. "Ten twenty three. We have twenty seven minutes before the next one. That is enough time for pie." Twenty seven minutes. "Okay," I say. "Pie." He stands up first. He is taller than I thought. He must be six feet tall, maybe a little more. He holds out his hand to help me up, and I look at it for a moment. Long fingers. Pencil bump on the thumb.

It had the kind of vision to make one look at it feel sick. It was then, after he handed me the object, and stretched back his arm that I realized what it was. An hourglass. I brought it up in front of my eyes. My orbs followed the tiny grains slipping down mixing with the pile making it larger. The sand was running fast. "Time is running out, make the most of it. Before you have to return to where you belong."

He murmured gruffly, his gaze surprisingly gentle, yet holding my droopy ones intently. “Why would you think that, I barely even slept” I murmured, my voice sounding barely above a whisper. “What kind of law in this advanced universe states that sleeping over ten hours is considered ‘barely slept’?” he demanded, his tone oozing off playful sarcasm. My eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets. “What??!... Ten hours?!” I yelled and he nodded with a shrug. “Ten hours, eight minutes and thirty four seconds to be precise” he read from the luxurious Graff Diamond watch strapped around his wrists.

Bright red, like fire. "What the hell is this?" the aggressive man shouted, his voice cracking with fear. The symbols flared brighter. The heat in the air intensified, becoming unbearable. And then, from the center of the circle, something began to rise. A stone pedestal emerged from the sand, smooth and black. And on top of it sat a single object. An hourglass. The sand inside was blood red, and it had already begun to fall. "You have seventy-two hours," the voice said. "Survive, and you may live to witness the next trial. Fail, and you will remain lost... forever."

Although the range of all the movements just now was not extensive, the mastery of power and time was highly demanding. Caspian even felt slightly out of breath. He raised his head and looked at the hourglass — the fine sand in the hourglass had just fallen by a third, and it was just within Caspian's expectation!

she whispered, her porcelain face chiseled with a terrible grin. "Now look at the clock." Through the sky above the copper cables a massive three-story bronze wheel, the central treasury clock of the capital, began to lower itself through the plum-colored clouds. The second hand of the clock was a thirty-foot double-edged steel guillotine that was falling toward the center of the lead registry with every tick. The time was three seconds to midnight. The steel wire inside Elara's palm gave a volcanic thump, the green numbers in her mind turning into a solid column of white zeros.