Zero Hour Shift

You don't notice the first time the loop resets. But your body does.

On Europa Rig Theta-9, gravity technician Elizabeth Evans keeps the lights on, the atmosphere stable, and her nightmares buried. Until one morning, her HUD flickers—and time skips backward. Just a second. Then a minute. Then more.

The power grid is humming with something it shouldn't. Footsteps echo when she's alone. Her reflection doesn't always move with her. And in the looping hours between system resets, she begins to see... herself. Other versions. Some screaming. Some silent. All broken in ways she hasn't learned to be yet.

Now, as the station fractures into flickers of alternate timelines and collapsing corridors, Elizabeth must outpace a countdown she doesn't understand and a fate already written in the static.

A tense, cerebral sci-fi horror story about identity, recursion, and the terror of being overwritten.