When the Days Slip
About the Story
After a perilous ritual steadies a town built on traded-away days, June Morrow navigates what returns and what is lost. She builds a public archive, mediates the painful consequences of recovered memory, and learns to keep a life alive through telling. A sealed vessel hums on her mantel; a blank, familiar scrap suggests another, unintended pledge.
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