Thread Unraveling Novels & Stories

And then Ingrid appears at the edge of the clearing, looking like she’s been punched in the chest. Her hands are curled into fists, shoulders rigid, eyes fixed on the mountain rising dark against the sky. “Ingrid,” I call. She doesn’t move. I cross the snow quickly, boots crunching hard enough that the sound feels wrong in the tense quiet. “What is it?” I ask, as Elias comes up on the other side of her. But instead of Ingrid answering, Elias does. “h-He’s tearing it apart. Cold slides down my spine. “What?” He looks at me, fear evident in his eyes. “The threads,” he whispers quietly. “All of them.”

*** Marco dreamed. Fragments of the past flickered by—moments he'd buried, moments he never truly saw. Aurora, winning a scholarship but spending it on a designer tie for him instead of herself. Aurora, standing in a dim chapel, hands clasped, praying—not for herself, but for his health. Aurora, dragging his drunk ass home, staying up all night to make sure he didn't wake up in pain. He reached for her, desperate to hold on. But the second his fingers grazed hers, she vanished—dissolving like mist.

I was greeted by her clothes that were neatly folded in different sections compared to how mine looked i shook my head still looking a found a lock under the clothes "What on earth is a closed lock doing under clothes?" I said in my mind; I held the lock and pulled it to see if anything would happen, but I discovered it wasn't locked. I guess she forgot. I opened the cover and found some documents piled up on top of each other and it looked like hundreds of papers

Phoebe's gaze fell on the damaged part of the wedding dress, her brows furrowing slightly. Without hesitation, she skillfully opened the sewing kit, delicately picking up the needle and thread with practiced ease. The issue wasn’t difficult to fix—her proficiency in needlework made it a simple task. With unwavering focus, she threaded the needle and carefully embroidered a petal over the torn area. Each stitch, precise and meticulous, concealed the flaw seamlessly.

It pierces through the air, undimmed by the sun's rays, guiding me to the target's location with unwavering precision. its light casting a faint shadow on the ground below, a shimmering echo of its path that seems to pulse with an energy all its own. The thread's luminescence was so bright that it casts a faint glow on nearby surfaces In the room illuminating hidden details. As the thread continues on its journey, it leaves behind a trail of glittering, shimmering light that seems to pulse with an energy all its own. The other end of the thread fell in my hands. The spell was getting close to its target.

“Which of you forgot why we made the Knot?” The forest tilted. Time slowed. The stars began to bleed backward. And beneath their feet, something deeper than thread uncoiled. Something that remembered… the first unraveling.

Frank snorted coolly as he grabbed a pinch of dirt from the ground and flung it forward. Suddenly, a thick nest of tangled threads not unlike a spider's web was revealed, even though the place was supposedly clear before! Each thread was transparent, and was only revealed after Frank threw the dirt over it. Bravo gasped when he saw the threads and was soon incensed.

To him, time was like an interloping of threads, all related to each other and the ultimate space, and in rare, yet possible cases, it was possible to bend those threads. Threads...threads of time...it rang a bell, but I wasn't sure where I had heard it from. I closed the book and fell on the chair. Time travel? Me? For what? So I can re-live some of the worst years of my life? I held my hair in handfuls and yelled, hoping that if I yelled hard enough, some miracle will take place and take me back to the time I belong. I have already lived past this. This is not my life any more.