The Hours Novels & Stories

he announced staring at his wrist “I don’t understand,” I admitted. “ what happens in 47 hours, 59 minutes and 40 seconds.” Alex rolled back in his chair, a humorless smile playing on his lips. “You don’t even have that much time left anyway that’s how long you have to deliver a project that’s up to my standards. “ He paused, his gaze boring into mine. Or else consider yourself jobless.

Honeymoon itineraries. The two of them had been completely wrapped up in their perfect future together. Back then, Lucia loved sending cute little animal stickers. Pierce always unconsciously pictured them with Lucia's face instead. Whenever her messages popped up, he'd imagine the expression she had while sending them and instantly want to ditch work and rush home to hold her. Sometimes he even wished he didn't have a job at all, just so she could stay in his sight every second. His finger kept scrolling. Soon, he reached the day Lucia gave birth.

I read it. It took approximately twelve seconds to read, which was the amount of time it took to register the two categories and the two time windows and the brief, clean sentence at the bottom that said please observe scheduled hours to support the household's morning routines. The document was brief. It said what it needed to say in the compact, unornamented language of someone who had thought carefully about what words to include and had included only those. His hours: seven to eight. Mine: nine to ten.

Had turned grief into a four-billion-dollar company. He could survive this too. They could survive this. “Six hours,” he said. “Six hours,” Selene agreed. “Let’s make them count.”

The corner of his mouth moved — not quite a smile, but the version of it she'd learned to read as the real thing. "No," he said. "He had better instincts and worse resources. We have the inverse." "Between us we have both," she said. He looked at her for a long moment. Then he closed the folder. "Hour," he said. She looked at him. "We've been at this for six hours," he said. "Take an hour. The texts will still be here." "Dom—"

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After a tiring day of training, Rogia grabbed her things from the back of the cab. All she wants at that moment is to have good rest. She had already reached the cube gateway, which served as a passageway to their allotted apartment. In this tunnel, it is not the room or floor number that should be pressed but the hora. The hora is a wristwatch-like device that is given to every pupil in this universe. Likewise, it is provided to recover your identity in this sector. The cube gateway, which happened to be the elevator of the realm, closed as it slid towards her dorm at the speed of light.

And then he sets me down, and the world flips again. “Whoa.” I squeeze my eyes shut. “I didn’t sign up for this ride.” “You’ve been dancing for hours.” He moves my arm to loop around his waist, then puts his around my shoulders. “Hours?” I shake my head, and my stomach heaves. “More like minutes. I just got there.” He laughs and shows me his phone. Three o’clock in the morning. The game ended forever ago… I groan and close my eyes, but he just shakes my arm.

“No.” “Didn’t think so.” Back to the road. Like that was fine. The bracelet was cool against my wrist. Sixty-three hours had become fifty-eight. Monday was still coming. But not yet.

They had traversed the crowds in their exploration of Main until they had almost finished their coffee. Slowly but surely, the crowds started to thin as everyone wrapped up the last of that day's Christmas errands. Tony looked down at his phone and saw it was almost a quarter past eleven. It was the Eleventh hour! He remembered he had seen a twenty-four hour CVS a little ways back, and there was a Walmart close by. They'd check out both so they would have options.