The Day That Broke Time

Beck Escarra thought she had escaped Burrington. She believed the town's horrors could be contained in memory and projected safely onto a screen. But some stories do not end when the credits roll.Two hundred years after Burrington's massacre, the curse once confined to its borders is unraveling the fabric of time itself. Reality bends. Seasons shift mid-breath. The dead stir where they should not. What began as a haunting is becoming something far larger.Amber, bound by blood to Burrington's forgotten past, begins seeing ghosts no one else can. Restless and relentless, they press against her mind as the world subtly distorts around her. Through the guidance of Frank Harlow, a man broken by Burrington and tethered to its unrest even in death, she begins to understand that the fracture is not spreading randomly.It is widening.Beck holds the key to stopping it, if she can be found. But the closer Amber comes to the truth, the more she realizes that the curse did not simply escape. It evolved.In this haunting sequel to Until Time Remembers, the boundaries between life and death, past and present, begin to collapse and the cost of sealing what was opened may be far greater than anyone imagined. Makitia Thompson is a multi-genre storyteller whose work blends poetic intensity with the raw honesty of documentary-style fiction. Whether writing haunting character studies, time-bending novels, or intimate poetry collections, she gravitates toward the places where emotion fractures and truth demands to be seen. Her stories often unravel the quiet ache beneath survival, the complicated weight of memory, and the beauty that emerges from brokenness.As the founder of Minds In Design, Thompson explores the intersections of literature, visual art, and immersive world-building. Her oil and acrylic paintings mirror the emotional pulse of her books, creating a bridge between image and narrative that deepens the impact of her work.Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, she began writing at age eleven and has spent more than a decade shaping stories that challenge, unnerve, and invite readers to confront themselves with empathy. Across poetry and fiction, Thompson's work asks one enduring question: What does it mean to reclaim your voice after the world has tried to rewrite it? A haunting series about memory, grief, and the horrors we inherit.When aspiring filmmaker Rebecca "Beck" Escarra stumbles upon the forgotten town of Burrington, she finds a place that shouldn't exist; one frozen in time, cloaked in illusion, and haunted by history. Officially abandoned since the 1800s, the town comes alive only at night, its residents trapped in an endless loop of 1827, the year of a mysterious massacre no one truly remembers and no one can forget.As Beck uncovers Burrington's terrifying truth, she's drawn into the lives of the townspeople, each of them a relic of a moment that refuses to die. From the grief-stricken Seinfeld family, reliving their children's funeral, to the eerie child ghost Elijah, and the bitter remnants of Lavinia Hark's stolen life, the town becomes a mirror of Beck's own buried fears and fractured identity.But Burrington isn't just cursed, it's hurting, echoing with the pain of betrayal, forbidden love, and unresolved trauma. And it has chosen Beck. With every revelation, the boundary between past and present thins, and Beck must decide whether to exploit the town's secrets for the story of a lifetime or risk everything to set it free.Spanning generations of grief and untold horror, Where Time Can't Exist is a genre-bending blend of mystery, sci-fi, thriller, and gothic horror, a story about the moments that define us, the ghosts that follow, and the cost of remembering what the world tried to forget.