The Clock That Dripped Time

What if the minutes you forget were never yours to lose?When clocks across the city begin leaking a black, viscous substance, time itself starts vanishing in precise thirteen-second bursts. Most people never notice what’s missing-but Kristyn does. She feels the gaps like pressure behind her eyes, like memories trying to exist without permission. As the world quietly adjusts to its stolen seconds, Kristyn discovers the unthinkable: time isn’t breaking. It’s being taken.Alongside her neighbor Liana, Kristyn uncovers the presence of the Time Thieves-cold, calculating entities that harvest unused moments to preserve a greater, hidden system. Their theft is clean, efficient, and nearly invisible. But awareness changes everything.As Kristyn learns to reconstruct stolen moments and reclaim lost seconds, she becomes something dangerous: a variable the system never accounted for. With reality destabilizing and the thieves demanding a total reset, Kristyn faces an impossible choice-restore a perfect, hollow world... or let time rot and reveal the truth beneath it.The Clock That Dripped Time is a chilling blend of psychological horror and speculative science fiction-a story about memory, resistance, and the terrifying cost of noticing what the world is designed to forget.