Mar 10, 2023
A woman unwittingly misses the start of daylight savings, falls one hour behind, and is unable to catch up.
Genre: Mystery, Mythology
Excerpt:
On her way back to her
cubicle, she called to her nearest neighbor. He didn’t answer. She
walked over, leaned against his cubicle and called his name again.
He kept working.
You too? she wondered. The silent treatment? For being late?
Audrey sighed. It was going to be a long day. She re-turned to her cubicle and reached for the mug on her desk. The handle was freezing. Her hand recoiled instinctively, then reached back. It was also, it seemed, going to be one of those days when every little thing would be hard.
What’s the Word (that inspired the
story)?
None. I wrote this when daylight savings was
about to start and was frustrated about losing an hour and decided
to attempt a “ridiculous and unoriginal” story.
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CREDITS
Story: “Behind the
Hour” Copyright © 2019 by Nila L. Patel
Narration, Episode
Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel
Music:
“Trip-Hop
Lounge Abstract Background” by Digital
Emotions (Intro/Outro)
Music by ANDREA BARONI (Cyberleaf)*
“March of the Waking Lights”
“Ground Control”
“You Were Always In The Right Place”
“Cozy Afternoons”
“Fugue For One Synthetic Heart”
“Slightly Across (No Percussion)”
“Forest Bathing”
“Night Time (No Percussion)”
Music by ALBERT FERNANDEZ (Audio Alchemist,
Potion Studio)*
“Exploration Mystery (loop)”
“Exploration Mystical Place (loop 1)”
“Exploration Technologic Place (loop)”
*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.
Music by Andrea Baroni and Albert Fernandez is
licensed from GameDev Market
Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket
Find more music by Digital_Emotions at
audiojungle.net
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music by Andrea Baroni and Albert Fernandez at gamedevmarket.net
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more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com
Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. A sphere set on a stand that’s lying on a table top. The sphere bears a pattern that looks like several atomic orbitals intersecting and jagged lines moving from edge to center. The stand bears on its front a colorful version of the intersecting orbitals pattern. The horizontal rectangular image is made square by adding a textured pattern of the sphere design in borders at top and bottom.