where time lingers
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Zora Rae Turner was full of life - curious, bold, and dreaming of a world beyond the dusty roads of her small Southern town. But now she drifts through a quiet version of home, caught in the soft blur between memory and something else entirely. Days repeat with a strange familiarity. Her mama hums in the kitchen. Her best friend Avery visits like always. Her boyfriend Colt still promises a future. But something is wrong.
As Zora pieces together fragments of her world - voices that don't reach her, reflections that don't always look back - a haunting truth begins to stir beneath the surface. What happened that night by the willow tree? Why does everything feel like it's already been lived?
Told through a slow unravel of poetic recollection, Where Time Lingers is a Southern Gothic ghost story about love that lingers, violence masked as devotion, and the fight to be seen even after you've been forgotten.
This is Zora Rae's story. And she's not done telling it.
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