Trapped in Time
by Winter Chen
Artificial IntelligenceFemale LeadPsychologicalShort StoryTime Travel
Synopsis：Jin has a condition: when she closes her eyes, she travels.Keywords become secret passages connecting two timelines—a hard board bed, a target arrow, a line from Wittgenstein. Anything, however small, can pull her back. She returns to the summer she was fifteen, to her cousin's computer, to the morning her aunt braided her hair. The memories arrive with such clarity, as if they had never left.But the present continues. Work, allergy medication, late-night writing, conversations with colleagues—two timelines run parallel, intertwined. Jin is trapped at the zero point of "now," constantly stretched between both ends.Why is she trapped in time?
