So far, Catherine has repeated the same day with the same deadly robbery 10,376 times.
10,376 times the woman’s mouth opened in a small ‘o,’ her brown lids pulled back to show the whiteness of her eyes, and she stared straight out into space before looking down and sticking a single finger in the slowly spreading blood. Every time it happened, Catherine dropped her half gallon of milk, and she waited for the end to come.

Variants

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  1. “Time Crash” by Jane Elliot, in Crossed Genres Magazine, August 2014.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Jane Elliot