The Day Time Stopped
by Bradner Buckner
After pulling the trigger to commit suicide, Dave Miller finds that time has stopped for
nearly the whole world. Only Dave, a dog, and Dr. Erickson remain animate—which would
be a time stoppage story instead of time travel story except for that possible small jump
at the end when the trio figure out how to break the spell.
The only way for us to try to get the machine working and topple ourselves one way or the
other. If we fall back, we will all live. If we fall into the present—we may die.
“The Day Time Stopped” by Bradner Buckner, in
Amazing, October 1940.