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A young witch finds a map that shows not a place, but a time

In a kingdom, two heirs are born at the same moment — one magical, one not

A pilgrim searches for a temple that appears only once every hundred years

A dragon in human form works as a translator at a port town

An alchemist's apprentice ordered the wrong ingredient — now half the city speaks an unknown language

A private detective receives a letter sealed with his own seal — one he's never used

At a closed winter hotel a guest announces "in three days one of us dies" — and vanishes that same night

An archives researcher discovers that in 1893 his town solved a crime that hadn't happened yet

A journalist interviews a man convinced he died ten years ago

A police inspector learns that the key witness in his case is himself, from a different timeline

A transport pilot catches a signal from a sector that's not on any Federation map

A cloning scientist discovers that her last subject is three years older than the original

Time starts running slow on a research station — two seconds per hour

Mars-4 colony traffic control receives a landing request from a ship that doesn't exist in any database

An archaeologist beneath Venice finds not a Roman slab but a processor with a working signal

A podcaster records the final episode in an abandoned school — and a comment appears: "play the recording you don't remember making"

A young couple buys a seaside house, and every morning at 4:47 a radio turns on — one that isn't in the house

An Arctic researcher finds a journal from a previous expedition, the last entry written in her own handwriting

In the backroom of bar "North" there's a lamp that only lights when no one's there — and the waitress decides to stay the night

A child sees his own room on the TV screen — and calls his parents with a one-second delay

A mercenary gets a contract to guard the very person he once failed

An inquisitor discovers the heretical scripture he must burn was written by his late teacher

A self-taught mage in a border village realizes the spell that saved her is slowly killing everyone around her

Three mercenaries in the ruins of an ancient temple must decide: take the artifact or bury it — and each of them has a past tied to it

A young witch returns to the town where her mother was hanged — twenty years later the villagers have accepted their mistake and are apologizing

Two former musicians run into each other on the subway ten years later — they both teach at the same school now

The owner of a small bakery gets a thank-you letter from someone whose name she doesn't know — and it's the third one this month

An ambitious journalist gets an interview with an author whose books she hates — and realizes after an hour that it's not him she hates

A young woman returns to her grandmother's village and meets the boy who used to be her closest friend, now acting like a stranger

He writes her one last letter before leaving for the army — and she receives it seven years after he left

An investigative journalist receives a flash drive in the mail with no return address — it contains a recording of her own interview that hasn't happened yet

A passenger on the overnight train notices that every 47 minutes the same man gets up and walks to the vestibule — but never comes back

A programmer sees in her own software's logs a request she didn't make — from her IP, while she was sleeping

A daycare worker discovers that one of the parents brings a different child each day under the same name

A wife keeps finding things in the house her husband swears he never bought — and they're multiplying week by week

A scribe in the imperial chancery in Rome 193 CE discovers someone is forging signatures on edicts — in the Year of the Five Emperors

A young Italian woman in 1527 Venice inherits a key to an unknown door — her late husband never mentioned it

A junior officer in Napoleon's army at Austerlitz gets orders contradicting the previous ones — and can't tell which ones come from real HQ

A Victorian-London maid finds among her mistress's belongings a letter signed with her own name — dated two years in the future

A schoolgirl in Petrograd, autumn 1917, sees her math teacher hand a book to a stranger at the train station — a week later the teacher disappears

A woman returns to her mother's apartment to sell it — and discovers 47 letters her mother never sent to her father

A translator at a seaside hotel translates for a couple breaking up in two different languages — and only he understands both

After his divorce a man learns to cook from his grandmother's notebook — and each dish connects to a memory he's working through

A young woman rides the train alone from Vladivostok to Moscow — seven days, and each day she becomes someone else

Two sisters who haven't seen each other in ten years meet to clear their late father's house — and realize they remember different fathers