TEMPORAL FRACTURE

# "WPC March 2025"



In "Temporal Fracture," time doesn't simply run out—it shatters. A catastrophic event causes the timeline to fracture into multiple parallel realities that begin to collapse into each other. These aren't alternate universes colliding, but fragments of our own timeline breaking apart and reassembling incorrectly.



Key elements:



- **Memory Bleed**: Characters begin experiencing memories from lives they never lived—versions of themselves from timeline fragments that are bleeding through.



- **Temporal Zones**: Different geographic regions experience time at different rates. A person might age years in one city while only days pass in another.



- **Causal Collapse**: Actions no longer reliably produce their expected effects. Someone might fire a gun, and the bullet appears somewhere else entirely. Historical events begin to unravel or rearrange themselves.



- **Temporal Anchors**: Certain individuals mysteriously remain stable amidst the chaos. These "anchors" can move between fractured zones without being affected by temporal distortions.



The protagonists are working to identify what caused the fracture and find a way to reintegrate the timeline before reality completely disintegrates.