The 61st Second

"Time waits for no one. But sometimes, it forgets you."

Julian lives his life in microseconds. As a high-frequency trader, every tick of the clock is profit or ruin. But during the latest atomic clock adjustment, something goes wrong. Julian doesn't move forward with the rest of the world. He is left behind in the 61st Second-a frozen, monochromatic version of London where the air tastes like copper and the silence is a physical weight.

In this sliver of dead time, the world is a gallery of s...