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Borrowed Tomorrow: She Stole Time to Save Her Sister

"Dr. Chen, every hour you steal doesn't simply vanish. Everything is rewritten by it. Disgraced temporal physicist Dr. Elara Chen's pioneering work was pilfered by her mentor and utilized to build an immortality empire for the wealthy. She now works in the hospital room of a dying sister and witnesses twenty-two-year-old Mira's decline due to a temporal illness that physically removes her from the timeline—a condition that the wealthy refuse to treat because it exclusively affects the underprivileged. Elara, feeling misled and desperate, breaks into her former lab and turns on the Chronos Extraction Engine, the one gadget they claimed would never function. It doesn't pilfer wealth or authority. It takes hours, days, and even years away from people's futures in order to offer them to someone else. It takes her an hour to save her sister. Only one. However, reality breaks down as soon as that hour passes. A stranger who was meant to perish in an automobile accident the following year unexpectedly survives today and kills three people. There is no longer a child who would have been born. Elara also learns the terrifying reality that every hour she spends has a cascading effect that drastically alters the planet. Even worse, Agent Kade Ashford, the TRA's most brutal time enforcer—a man with ice in his veins and a sad background that made him vow to stop anybody who manipulates time—is now pursuing her. He ought to take her into custody right away. Rather, he makes her an unfeasible offer: if she assists him in preventing the actual criminals from utilizing her pilfered research to wipe out entire communities, he will provide her with the one item she most needs. His own prospects. Elara discovers a top-down scheme as she steals more hours to keep Mira alive: the Chronos Corporation created the temporal sickness to take advantage of the impoverished's remaining time for the wealthy. In addition to stealing her findings, her tutor used it as a weapon to carry out genocide for financial gain. Elara now has to decide whether to save Mira and watch the world burn or let her sister die and protect reality. However, Kade won't share with her the third alternative, which calls for the greatest sacrifice and would alter their understanding of time, love, and what it is to really live. The time is running out. The world is falling apart. And tomorrow is getting closer to never happening at all with each hour she steals.
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The Eternal King Enki — The Undying Witness

A cosmic court has condemned humanity. Seven immortal witnesses return to the dawn of civilization to prove — or disprove — its worth. Most fall. Power twists them into tyrants, idols, and architects of sterile utopias. Only one chooses another path. Across centuries, Enki walks among mortals unseen, planting knowledge instead of monuments, nurturing fragile lives instead of controlling them. He learns that meaning is not found in eternal empires, but in fleeting acts of grace — a hand lifted from mud, a garden built from flood-ruins, a child taught to listen to water. His defense is not glory. It is tenderness. It is persistence. It is humanity’s quiet refusal to stop loving, even knowing all things end. A mythic tale about time, loss, and choosing to build anyway. [Beneath the myth and the science fiction lies a simple, stubborn claim: this is not just a story. Enki was born in 2850 BC and has been carrying the memory ever since. The names are changed, the years shifted, the moons given new orbits, yet the resurrection happened, the desert temptation was real, the stone rolled away, and the Judge has been reigning ever since. Everything else — the Scrapbook, the 0.3%, the blind spot in the machine — is simply the record of those who kept looking up while the world looked down. Most have forgotten there is a sky vaster than any mind can hold, that Earth is a gift, not a possession, that God drew no borders and the birds still fly free without passports. Read it as fiction if you like. Some books are written so the truth can reach the few who still have ears to hear. This is one of them.] 2025 Mark Casa Nova (Original) You may share, translate, adapt, illustrate, animate, film, or perform this work freely — even commercially — on one unbreakable condition: Do not change the lesson. The resurrection happened. The stone was rolled away. Grace is real, borders are not, and the birds still fly free. Everything else — style, medium, language — is yours to play with. The core is not. That’s all I ask. [Mark K. Carlos]
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