What if the enemy was #timeitself?
Everyone dies. Everything dies. That is the cycle of life and death, we all have a finite span and we make the most of it. What if you can stretch it, but as an eternal youth?
What lengths will you go to make that a reality?
#horrorprompt #writing
when time itself breaks
ages devour one another
nothing can survive
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Time itself had him
Hogtied, paralysed by the
Fear of getting old.
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Every year, a mist falls over the town of Kelna. Each time it does, something changes or someone goes missing.
This past week, Bo had watched as several people were dragged into the mist by a creature with skin stretched far too tight over bone.
#horrorprompt
#timeitself
Each station master set his clock by observing the sun. When it reached its midpoint in the sky, that was considered Noon. This made time itself subjective in every city in the U.S. And it made train schedules confusing for passengers and infuriating for train conductors who had to constantly reset their clocks. Railroad managers set up a system with 100 local times across the continent, which did not help. Enter the United States’ first meteorologist, Cleveland Abbe. He took his work quite seriously. Abbe recruited volunteers across the country to send in data that could help him forecast weather coast to coast. He believed the accuracy of his forecasts depended on the precise times when weather data were collected. So, he mapped out a few time zones. In the year 1879, Abbe wrote out his detailed thinking on all this in a paper titled Report on Standard Time. And this is where the United States’ four time zones were introduced. The railroad companies adopted Abbe’s time zones at Noon on November 18, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois. That’s when the telegraph lines transmitted signals to all major U.S. cities throughout the nation’s four time zones.
An undated b/w photo portrait of Cleveland Abbe, the first meteorologist in the U.S. Photo credit and source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
On this day in 1883, U.S. railroad companies replaced “local times” with time zones. Before this day, there were hundreds of local times across North America.
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Let your kin know this song, though.
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Stevie was and is wise beyond his years. Listen to the lyrics, especially on the choruses. He builds it up to convey the real message.
He was 26 when he released this song.
#songanalysis #stolenland #timeitself
