Supplemental: More on the Place Out of Time

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Apparently someone stole my idea — before I even had it. Sister-san writes:

“In junior high I read a school library book (titled Synchronicity, I think) with a similar subject. A pair of twin teenage boys was spending the summer with relatives and discovered a cabin hidden in the backyard ‹ the cabin was in some kind of weird time warp (I think 1 minute=1 day). Inside was a bunch of canned goods and reading material, so the place was obviously meant as a bomb shelter.

After the twins had played in it a few times, one of them got the bright idea that he could finally find a way to distinguish himself from his brother. He slipped out of bed early one night and gathered a few supplies and went to the cabin. He had calculated that he could age an entire year by spending time in the cabin overnight until his brother got up in the morning. He spent a whole “year” in the cabin reading tons of books and doing tons of push-ups and sit-ups and keeping a journal. Once every “day” he would go outside and run around for one minute in real time.

When he finally went back into the house, no one could believe he was the same boy. He had gotten quite muscular and had long hair in a ponytail. He certainly accomplished his goal of distinguishing himself from his brother, but also found out that that wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. People were spooked of him, and his twin felt slighted.

I don’t quite remember how it ended, but I really enjoyed the questions it sparked. I¹ve often thought about trying to track it down to read it again.”

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