Stasis story
May, Jakob's girlfriend, finds a strange device in a lake. While at a wedding, May befriends Ethan, a boy with a foot disability. Ethan helps May steal a component for the device, and she inserts it to activate the machine. May kisses Ethan, but she leaves and she finishes the machine which, when she turns it on, temporarily freezes time. They spend a month together, having fun, and eventually pronounce their love for one another. After finally deciding to resume time, May discovers that an integral component of the machine is broken. She and Ethan go looking for a replacement in the house where her mother is having an affair, something she was unaware of before. Distraught, she argues with Ethan who then runs off and leaves the paused time. May fixes the machine and restarts time, where she apologizes to Ethan and they part ways.
12 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| time freeze | choice | The story explores what two youngsters might do if they found a way to freeze time. Excluding for themselves, of course. |
| human childhood | major | We saw two horny adolescents explore their sexuality, and other turbulent emotions. May had a conflict with her mother regarding shagging. |
| mobility impairment | major | May and Ethan had a falling out when she maligned his disability - a malformed right foot as it happened. |
| mother and daughter | major | May had a strained relationship with her mother who disapproved of her running around with boys. May later revealed the mother as a hypocrite when she walked on her playing pelvic pinochle together with an area man. |
| romantic love | major | May and Ethan proclaimed their love for one another, and consummated it on the hard cold asphalt of a high street in their time-frozen village. |
| teen romance | major | May and Ethan were two high schoolers in love. |
| father and daughter | minor | May interacted with her father on the lake shore and in the car. |
| fear of being alone | minor | May confided in Ethan that she was afraid of being alone. |
| fishing | minor | May was fishing at the lake shore together with her father. |
| recreational activity | minor | Ethan was into archery. |