She realized she was in a time loop when she woke up to find her desk missing.
Ok. That wasn’t the full story.
When she first saw empty space in place of the new desk she’d just spent the whole day building, she thought she’d been robbed in her sleep.
Fear turned to confusion when she rushed to her living room and found her table, still packed in pieces in its original packaging. She could have sworn that she had already assembled the massive furniture, even had the bruise from when she dropped a drawer on her foot to prove it.
Except… her skin didn’t have a single mark.
For one scary hour, she curled in the corner of her couch, wondering if the stress from work had finally driven her insane.
She only had one free day off for the rest of the month, set aside especially to put her new desk together, so she pulled herself out of her spiralling thoughts and got to work. This time, she learnt from past experience and didn’t drop the drawer, but she stepped on a screw instead.
The next day, she woke up once again to an unexpectedly empty space. Only then did she realise time had rewound.
Assembling a desk half her weight was tiring enough once, she wasn’t going to do it a third time, especially if her day was going to reset itself. Which meant… she had a free day.
She rolled over, pulled her blanket up to her chin, and burrowed in.
~End~
Genre: science fiction
Time loop story: 1/8