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"Borrowed Time" Urban Fantasy / Tragedy: Herself

In 'Borrowed Time,' Dina, a watch repairer, sees the final moments of a watch's owner when she touches it. After winding a gold pocket watch, time literally stops, revealing her future self and the consequences of her actions in manipulating time. Ultimately, she pays the price for her interference, fading away while the watch begins to tick again.

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"Borrowed Time" Urban Fantasy / Tragedy: Herself

In 'Borrowed Time,' Dina, a watch repairer, sees the final moments of a watch's owner when she touches it. After winding a gold pocket watch, time literally stops, revealing her future self and the consequences of her actions in manipulating time. Ultimately, she pays the price for her interference, fading away while the watch begins to tick again.

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"Borrowed Time" – Urban Fantasy / Tragedy

Dina worked in a watch repair shop. Not digital watches—only the old kind, with gears and
ticking hearts.

She was quiet. Wore gloves. Never smiled.

Because every time she touched a broken watch, she saw the final moments of its last
owner.

One day, a man brought her a gold pocket watch.

“It hasn’t ticked since my grandfather died,” he said.

She nodded, took it in the back, and wound it.

And time stopped.

Literally.

The shop froze. The cars outside paused mid-air. A bird in flight became a statue.

Only Dina moved.

She looked into the ticking watch and saw… herself.

Older. Crying. Holding this same watch.

A voice whispered from within the gears:

“You’ve used enough borrowed time.”

The watch began to crumble. Her gloves disintegrated. And suddenly, she remembered
every second she’d stolen to fix others’ time.

Every life she delayed, every death she reversed.

Time demanded payment.

She smiled softly, placed the watch on the counter…

…and faded into dust.


The world resumed.

The man blinked. The shop empty.

But the watch?

It ticked.

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