The Time Slips Stories cases readers rated highest and believed most — the jury's all-time picks.
I want to say up front that I lost the newspaper, which makes this worthless as evidence, and I know it, and I am telling it anyway because …
856 Upvote · 74% of readers believe this story
I was killing time before an appointment, wandering a street of old buildings downtown, when I found an antique shop I had never noticed. Na…
271 Upvote · 86% of readers believe this story
My commute home is ten minutes. I have driven it thousands of times. Out of the lot, four sets of lights, over the little bridge, past the s…
254 Upvote · 80% of readers believe this story
I was driving cross-country to visit family, taking back roads to avoid a closed highway, and somewhere in the late afternoon I got thorough…
241 Upvote · 83% of readers believe this story
I have worked the third shift at the plant for nine years, and the one thing you learn on nights is the sky. You feel dawn coming before you…
143 Upvote · 93% of readers believe this story
It was a two-night work trip: check in Wednesday, out Friday. I remember both nights. I especially remember Friday morning, because the show…
138 Upvote · 48% of readers believe this story
We were driving back from the coast and took the scenic route, which is how we ended up in the village at dusk just as the lights came on ac…
114 Upvote · 98% of readers believe this story
The Pine Ridge loop is nine kilometres and I hike it twice a month. Post 7 to post 8 is the dullest stretch: flat, straight, twelve minutes …
109 Upvote · 94% of readers believe this story
My dentist runs on time; that is why I have kept her for eleven years. My appointment was 15:30 and I arrived at 15:20, took the chair by th…
85 Upvote · 65% of readers believe this story
I got lost on purpose, the way you do in a new city with an hour to kill. The old quarter behind the cathedral is a knot of lanes, and I too…
80 Upvote · 99% of readers believe this story
The Hartfield tunnel is 900 metres long. At motorway speed you are through it in about forty seconds. I commute through it twice a day and i…
56 Upvote · 63% of readers believe this story
The drive from my sister's farm to my house is twenty-two minutes. One county road, two stop signs, no traffic to speak of. I have done it w…
51 Upvote · 70% of readers believe this story
My apartment building's lift takes about forty seconds from the eleventh floor to the lobby. I got in at 8:55 on a Thursday, dressed for the…
32 Upvote · 89% of readers believe this story
Night drives are my job — I move equipment between venues. I know every all-night fuel stop on the east corridor, which is why the one that …
27 Upvote · 59% of readers believe this story
