Seven Minutes
Some moments last forever.
Some moments are both.
About the Book
[TIMESTAMP: 11:45 AM — 09/25]
Time stops. The system fractures. And two boys get seven minutes — just long enough for one question to remain unresolved:
is the human embodiment of code. Time is linear, emotions are bugs, and love is an inefficient algorithm he refuses to run — until an artist crashes into his life like an exception he can't handle.
has been running for as long as he can remember — away from family, from obligations, from himself. He has to trap time in his art, just to get it to stay a little bit longer. It isn't until he runs into a robot of a human that he has to figure out how to stay.
Then everything stops.
In the space between, the world doesn't make sense. Not the looping, not the glitches… not even each other. But Seven Minutes is all they have. All they had.
Somehow, it's enough.
has always been the perfect Mormon girl. She is who everyone wants her to be, except when it comes to being herself. She splits herself into unlimited versions of "Mara," until she's forced to choose who she is without permission.
is an EMT who has had to fight against death his whole life. September 25th was supposed to be just another Thursday — until a boy with glasses — one who looks like the brother he lost — crashes into his life.
Four voices. A dying system. And time that refuses to stay still.
Seven Minutes explores the space between heartbeats: what remains after the body is gone, what allows the mind to stay, and whether love can return true when life is returning false.
The answer might take eternity to find. But they only have seven minutes.
[QUERY: Was seven minutes enough?]
[RESPONSE: It's all they ever had.]
[END TRANSMISSION]
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Content Guidance
This novel contains depictions of death, grief, trauma, religious trauma, family rejection, queer identity struggles, non-consensual outing, homophobic language, vehicular accidents, emergency medical scenes, mental health struggles, and non-graphic references to self-harm and suicidal ideation.
Reader discretion is advised. Please take care while reading.
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