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    Just a Matter of Time
    Just a Matter of Time
    Just a Matter of Time
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    Just a Matter of Time

    By Charity Tahmaseb

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    Sadie Lin: High school junior Sadie is desperate--to maintain her GPA, to score high on the SATs, for her dad to return from Afghanistan. Time seems to crawl and slip through her fingers all at once. She thinks it's all in her head.

    It's not.

    Gordon Bakersfield: Gordon--Sadie's ninth grade epic crush--has plenty of time and knows where to get more. He knows someone has been stealing Sadie's time. And while he's not sure how to make it stop, he's hoping to try. But can Sadie trust him?

    Only time will tell.

    This young adult paranormal novelette is approximately 8,000 words long (~35 pages).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCollins Mark Books
    Release dateMar 5, 2016
    ISBN9781519925398
    Just a Matter of Time
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    Charity Tahmaseb

    Charity Tahmaseb was a 2003 Golden Heart finalist, and one of her short stories was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the co-author, with Darcy Vance, of The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading, and lives in Minnesota. Visit her at thegeekgirlsguide.com/wordpress.

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      Just a Matter of Time - Charity Tahmaseb

      Just a Matter of Time

      Just a Matter of Time

      A Young Adult Paranormal Short Story

      Charity Tahmaseb

      Collins Mark Books

      Contents

      Just a Matter of Time

      About the Author

      Also by Charity Tahmaseb

      Just a Matter of Time

      To: Sadie.Lin@email.com

      From: TimeThief@email.com

      Subject: You’re running out of time

      If time is money, then someone is robbing you blind.

      A Friend

      When the message landed in my inbox, from a fake account, I ignored it. It was spam. Or a joke. Or one of those random things that happen on the Internet—and if you fell into that time suck, then you deserved to get robbed.

      So I deleted it and went back to AP World History.

      But two weeks later, as I sat in the orchestra room, my hand clutched the neck of my violin like I might strangle it. I wondered if I really had run out of time—or become very bad at managing it. I’d been late for tonight’s special practice. I let the violin strings bite into my fingers, preferring pain to shame.

      I blinked, trying to figure out when the room had cleared. I blinked again as if waking from a dream and breathed in the stale, silent air. I looked from my own hands, still clutching the violin, to the ones on the clock.

      6:38.

      The fire of lost time started in my toes, raced up my legs and straight to my heart. I jumped. My music stand crashed into the director’s podium, but I didn’t bother to right it. In the storage room, my fingers fumbled with the closures to my violin case. I had everything locked in the cubby, but when I turned to leave, I nearly crushed my bow beneath the sole of my ballet flat. More wasted time.

      Bow tucked away, I sprinted to the lobby, fear like a fist in my stomach. The significance of the closed auditorium doors slammed into me—and me into them. The thud echoed, then died. Above me, the clock read:

      7:00.

      Muted applause reached me from behind the closed doors. A name echoed, one that sounded a lot like Sadie Lin. Somehow I’d missed the start of the National Honor Society induction ceremony. Missed it—and had no idea what to do. Should I barge in and demand my certificate and pin? Should I wait? Or was

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