A Split Second

Janae Marks, Creative Writing '10

That clock can’t be right. When Elise wakes up the morning after her birthday celebration, she’s surprised to find herself in her bedroom. As far as she can remember, she fell asleep next to friends at a slumber party in her basement, and it was October. But now she’s alone, and her phone says it’s April 8. Elise doesn’t understand. How could she have woken up six months later?

Everyone is acting as if nothing strange has happened, yet Elise can’t remember the last half year. To make matters worse, her friends refuse to talk to her, and Elise doesn’t know why. She also has no idea how she got signed up for photography club or why her former best friend, Cora, is talking to her again. Is it a memory problem? Could it be magic?

Every day that passes takes Elise further from the world she knew. Thankfully, Elise has Cora to lean on in this new reality, and the two work together to find out why Elise has woken up in the future - and, more important, how to get her back to her past and away from this nightmare.

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