102 Minutes Novels & Stories

Her eyes fell away just as quickly and she was looking towards the crowd again, "This round will last a total of twenty minutes, whoever fails to reach the finish line will be automatically evicted." The crowd roared again at that, the volume making me flinch. Calloway smiled again. "Your time starts-"She raised the microphone so that it was directed at us. "Now."

And I wish I was. "No, carry on. Two hours, forty-five minutes, and fifty-fifty seconds. That's how long you've been talking and trying to prove a point. It'll be dumb of me to interrupt such a nonsensical masterpiece you've got." I speak plainly, my eyes fixated on his. Marcellus maintains the eye-lock. His are dilated with rage.

And the reason is very clear. Elara behind that closed door of the labor room. Christ do we have to do this every time? “Minutes,” Luca corrects beside me. “Forty-five minutes.” I side-glance at him, my jaw tight. “That long? How long is it going to fucking take?” “Some take hours. Even days,” he says calmly. Days. The word feels like a death sentence.

The ceremony had started. Twelve minutes. The wave had fifteen. The math was close enough to feel.

He was still full with anger and fear of losing his wang fei. Master Gao pulled back his hand from Li Fei Long’s shoulder. He stood by Li Fei Long’s side, both of them looking in the same direction. “She should be conscious in a couple hours. I will manage her diet for a few days.” The explanation made Li Fei Long breath in relief. His eyes fixed on the unconscious Jiang Xi Yu. Her face tone gradually went back to normal. By then, it seemed like Jiang Xi Yu was in a deep sleep. ***

“So you should probably understand what those two ugly men are doing at Second Master’s home by now.” ‘Yes!’ Sotiria would have to be an idiot if she still couldn’t understand at this point! “Second Master has made accurate calculations. The effects of that solution on a human will only start working in eleven minutes after consumption. Given my superb driving skills, we will only need fifteen minutes to get from here to Second Master’s house. If we run through all red lights, nine minutes should be enough.” Lucas showed Sotiria his watch. “So get in the car, or you’ll miss the show.”

Richard knew that Braelynn was smart, so he would not expose himself first. "Are you sure you won't regret it?" Braelynn emphasized. "I won't! I'm not that kind of person!" "I think this song should last about 24 minutes and 36 seconds." Braelynn's guess was in line with the total duration of the three songs. Richard also planned to guess about the same duration as her, but he began to feel anxious when she calculated the seconds as well. Richard secretly said in his heart, "Oh no, will I lose to Braelynn today?"

she didn't spend fifteen minutes but fourteen minutes, fifty-two seconds. "Shit! I missed it. I have to get into that room again" She said looking determined.

My boyfriend, Julian Vance, always said that people in relationships shouldn't use their partners as emotional dumping grounds. So he set a rule. I got ten minutes a day to unload on him. He said his job wore him out and he hoped I'd understand. I agreed. I even thought he simply had strong boundaries. Then my grandmother died, the woman who had raised me on her own. I came back from the funeral home still gripping the reading glasses she never got to put on. All I wanted was for Julian to hold me for a while. He sighed instead. "It isn't that I won't stay with you. It's that you've used up your quota for today." I asked through tears, "Can't today be an exception?" He said, "Once there's a