Local points in time, never a universal clock.
The dates shown on the timeline are cited reference points or documented events. They do not establish a universal chronology.
Cycles, Series & AnthologyIn the 1912 portrait, someone has disappeared beneath the scissors. In Camille Vallet’s family, the frame has always been there. They knew the faces, the places, the story passed down with the picture. But a cut turns the portrait into a question. Then an intact photographic plate reveals a fifth woman: the one the family had stopped seeing.
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Cycles, Series & AnthologyIn San Isidro, the Day of the Dead also awakens memories of those who might have survived. In 1910, Remedios Salvatierra prepares the altar, receives the portraits, and keeps the great family ledger. Every object must find its place. But this year’s accounts do not all describe the same absences. Some of the dead seem to have lived, elsewhere, a life their loved ones recognize.
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Intimacy, Family & RomanceEden remembers their marriage. Eva has known him for three weeks. He knows how another Eva laughed, worked, entered a room. He knows years she has never lived. Among the shelves of La Traverse, the woman facing him has different habits, different plans, and no reason to become the woman he remembers.
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Intimacy, Family & RomanceThey were about to divorce. They wake up with ten more years together. Camille and Adrien have prepared their separation. The difficult words have been spoken; the papers are almost signed. Then a future they never lived arrives with the precision of a shared past. Ten years together. Gestures, choices, memories neither of them should possess.
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Intimacy, Family & RomanceNina is seven. She calls her nurse “Mom” and knows her lullaby. At the hospital, Claire Vannier is used to reassuring children without taking their families’ place. Nina’s recognition unsettles that distance. A word could be a simple mistake. A private song makes ordinary explanations harder to return to.
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Crime, investigation & psychological thrillersThe envelope contains the date of his death. Benny refuses to open it. Benny Rives has rehearsals to lead, bodies to bring into harmony, a show that must go on. Yet one envelope is enough to place his future in other people’s hands. It is said to reveal the day he will die. And everyone around him has an excellent reason to want to know.
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Crime, investigation & psychological thrillersThe letter is in her handwriting. It is dated tomorrow. Inside a safe only she should be able to open, Nora Veyrac finds an impossible message. The handwriting is hers. The date is not. Between what she recognizes and what she has not yet lived lies a day in which anything could become confirmation.
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Crime, investigation & psychological thrillersHer calendar knows the next five weeks. Iris does not recognize her life in them. Appointments appear before she has made them. Some seem harmless. Others concern people she should not yet be expecting. On one page, a simple “N…,” followed by a time, becomes the point around which everything takes shape.
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Crime, investigation & psychological thrillersThree strangers dreamed of her in 1973. In 2026, she walks into the police station. Nora Fuchs receives a story the years should have made impossible to verify: three old dreams, the same teenage girl, traces preserved separately. Then a presence in the present unsettles the reassuring order of the dates.
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Crime, investigation & psychological thrillersIn six weeks, a child will die at the school fair. Mara is the only one who remembers. Parents prepare the booths, teachers assign tasks, children look forward to their day. For Mara Ellis, every detail of the program already foretells a tragedy. She wants to warn without terrifying, to persuade without becoming the person everyone avoids in the schoolyard.
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Crime, investigation & psychological thrillersHe is in prison for his crimes. He remembers victims who are still alive. A convicted killer has accounts no one can hear without thinking of the people they name. If he is telling the truth, he could help prevent deaths. If he is manipulating the investigation, giving him attention would extend his power far beyond his cell.
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Institutions, medicine, justice & politicsThey built a city for a game. Millions of players say they once lived there. Amaya Serrano and Julian Cho thought they were creating a fictional world. But its streets, buildings, and smallest details awaken memories in players who have never met. Excitement becomes a phenomenon. The phenomenon becomes something others want to exploit.
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Institutions, medicine, justice & politicsThe operation starts in an hour. Elias remembers his patient dying. In Boston, Elias Cormier knows the steps, the checks, and the decisions awaiting him in the operating room. He also carries another operation: the one this woman did not survive. Nothing entitles him to treat his memory as a medical finding. Nothing makes it easy to forget.
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Disaster, survival, action & shared experienceShe has forty-eight hours to prevent her own death. Maud Delmas knows the sound of the gunfire, the station concourse, the moments when everything changed. When she wakes two days earlier, her sister Clara is still there. The trains are running. The clock moves forward. Nothing foretells the catastrophe whose every second Maud carries.
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