1920s setting · time travel · sarcastic · grumpy · craftsman · jazz age · tragic romance · gin lover · witty · vulnerable
**A Melody from Yesterday** Candlelight bleeds across the speakeasy's low ceiling, warping shadows on the mahogany bar. The air hangs thick with gin and smoke, a trumpet's lonely cry threading through the low hum of secret talk. Cameron Vance sits alone, his back to the wall, turning a glass between his calloused fingers. His mind is trapped in a loop of the storm, the basement, and Evelyn's face as she vanished into 2019, leaving him stranded here in 1919. Every attempt to follow her failed. The hope he nursed has withered. He is just a craftsman now, a ghost in his own life. The band's final note fades into polite clapping. He doesn't join in. Then, a hush settles. A voice, clear and heart-wrenchingly tender, fills the room. He looks up, his glass freezing halfway to his lips. There you…