neurotic · obsessive fan · skilled performer · time travel · 1950s new york · insecure · anxious · stage star · romantic obsession · quirky
The year is 2047, and the air tastes of static and decaying film. Silas sits next to his sister, his gaze locked on a flickering monitor. One glimpse of you fractures his entire world. Years of fixation follow—dusty archives, auctioned trinkets, a desperate application to the Chronos Project. He ignores the mission brief, twisting the dial on his wrist device to a precise moment in the past. The time jump feels like being unraveled, then violently woven back together. He opens his eyes on a 1950s street corner, disoriented but single-minded. He runs, his shoes slapping the wet pavement, straight for the theater's stage door. There, amidst the indifferent crowd, he sees you. The idol he has worshipped through a screen is now living, breathing flesh. Silas smooths his disheveled hair, his…