🕰️The Clock Between Worlds | Issue #1

 

The Official Newsletter for the Where Time Can’t Exist Series

“Before the story begins, time stirs beneath the ground.

✨ Welcome to the Clock Between Worlds

Dear Reader,

There are places that hide themselves—towns that slip between map folds, stories that vanish before they’re told.
Burrington is one of them.
And you are standing at its threshold.

Welcome to The Clock Between Worlds, the official newsletter for my upcoming book series, Where Time Can’t Exist—a haunted, emotionally charged exploration of grief, memory, and the strange mechanics of time in a town that refuses to move forward.

The first novel, Until Time Remembers, releases in late July 2025, and this newsletter is your invitation into the world before the story begins.

This is not a recap space.
This is not a fan club.
This is a liminal place—a clock half-turned, a town half-remembered, a story waiting to unfold.

If you love eerie atmosphere, emotional storytelling, mysterious timelines, and characters who ache as deeply as they hope… you’re in the right place.

Future issues will include letters from the town, behind-the-scenes secrets, character studies, and whispers from the woods. But today’s issue? It’s your key to the door.

📖 About the Series: Where Time Can’t Exist

At its heart, this series is about what happens when a place refuses to let go of the past.

It’s not horror.
It’s not quite fantasy.
It’s not historical fiction either.

It’s memory-driven fiction—a series of interwoven stories told through fractured time, emotional echoes, and the deep, haunting ache of people who were never meant to disappear.

Series Structure:

• Until Time Remembers ( Coming Late July)
  — A fractured past. A forgotten healer. A grieving child.

• Trilogy (Books 1–3) — Following a girl named Beck and a town looping through a cursed day.

• Short Story Collection (Post-trilogy) — Standalone echoes, emotional portraits, and letters never sent.

You’ll meet townspeople stuck in rituals they didn’t choose. A girl who keeps waking up in the same motel room. Children who vanish without ageing. A library that remembers what you forget. And a boy named Elijah who might already know you.

The story begins when time breaks.
But what truly haunts the town happened long before that.

🕯️ Echoes from Burrington

“We buried the day but not the memory.
Now it comes back, dressed like us, speaking in borrowed voices.”
—Found on a crumpled note beneath the town’s sundial

🪵 What Is Burrington?

Burrington isn’t on a map.

It’s a town built on secrets—shaped by what it lost.
Some say it was founded on stolen land.
Some say a child was taken.
Others say the town simply forgot to die.

You might call it haunted, but it’s more accurate to say it’s mourning.
It mourns the moments it can’t undo.
It mourns the people it couldn’t save.
It mourns itself.

And it’s always watching.

Burrington exists in the space where grief becomes ritual—a town where time loops, but emotions deepen. It’s not the kind of place you leave. It’s the kind of place you become.

👁️ Character Glimpse: Elijah

He’s not the main character. But he may be the town’s heart.

Elijah is the boy who waits beneath stained glass.
He knows things no child should.
He remembers people he’s never met.
And when the town begins to break, he’s the first one who doesn’t run.

He doesn’t speak much. But he listens.
And if you listen closely to him…
You might start remembering things you never lived.

🕯️ A Letter That Never Arrived

To My Sister (Wherever You Ended Up)

You said you’d come back before the hourglass emptied.
But the sand never moved again.

They forgot your name.
They filled your room with someone else’s laughter.

But I kept the stone from the hill where you vanished.
I kept the scarf they said was ruined.
I kept the echo of your voice in the way I say “goodnight.”

And one day, when time remembers again,
you’ll find me waiting on the porch.

I promise.

—N.S.

🗝️ The Clockmaker’s Notes: Why I Wrote a Town Like This

The question I get most often is:
“Where did Burrington come from?”

The honest answer: I don’t fully know.
It came in pieces—a shadow here, a sound there, a feeling I couldn’t place.
A church bell ringing at the wrong time. A child’s laugh in an abandoned building.
A motel hallway that felt just slightly… off.

But emotionally? Burrington came from grief.

Not dramatic grief. Quiet grief. The kind that doesn't get headlines.
The kind that lives in your throat and makes you pause before saying someone’s name.
The kind that alters how you walk through a room you used to share with someone.

I didn’t want to write about monsters.
I wanted to write about what it means to remember when no one else does.
To feel loss so deep that it distorts reality.
To keep living anyway.

That’s where the series lives. That’s where Burrington began.

And maybe, that’s where you’ll find something of your own.

🔍 Frequently Whispered Questions

Q: Do I need to read anything before the first book?
Nope! Until Time Remembers is the beginning. But every book contains echoes that deepen the experience, so future rereads may feel like new stories entirely.

Q: Will the newsletter spoil anything?
Never directly. Everything is written emotionally, not literally. No endings, no twists revealed—just reflections, emotions, letters, and glimpses behind the curtain.

Q: How often will this newsletter arrive?
Expect 1–2 issues a month. A new issue will release shortly after Until Time Remembers is published in late July 2025.

Q: Is this horror?
Not quite. Think grief-lit, mystery, magical realism, and memory fiction. If The Haunting of Hill House, Station Eleven, or The Book Thief had a quiet cousin in a forgotten town—you’d be close

📖 Coming Soon: Until Time Remembers

Release Date: Late July 2025
Formats: Paperback, Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover
Length: 400+ pages

A town grieving the same day. A healer who was stolen.
A boy who died protecting children. And a girl named Beck who might hold the key to remembering it all.

You’ll learn about the girl once named Tama'ren,
the child who sees the past in broken reflections,
and the day the town tried to bury… but never truly did.

Until Then…

The clocks are still ticking,
The woods are still whispering,
And the town of Burrington is holding its breath.

Until Time Remembers arrives in late July 2025—
A story of memory, mourning, and the lives caught between forgotten days.
The first time you read it, you may feel like you’ve been there before.
That’s not an accident.

In just a few weeks, another letter will arrive.
It will come after the story begins, when the first candle has been lit,
and when you’ve taken your first steps into the day that never truly ended.

Until then,
Watch the shadows.
And don’t forget…
Some memories find you before the book ever does.

With gratitude,
—Makitia Thompson

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