Help Wanted: Short Story Department

We just went through a time change which reminded me that around the time of the last change (“fall back”) I got bogged down in a short story.  The story is called The Lost Hour and the premise is simple: the hour that you lose when you fall back gets set aside for future use, and you recover that hour in the Spring when you “spring ahead.”  The people involved are three individuals in a nondescript bar at closing time.  They step out into the street at the moment time “moves backwards” and figure out that time was suspended. Of course they do not know they will ever see that hour again, and whether they will ever be made accountable for what they do during that lost hour.

Being the author, one has the power to provide any character one wants so we have some flexibility here.  I started with a lady cut off for too much to drink, an older male regular at the bar, and a kid in jeans.  So can you send me some ideas?  All three, outside the bar, will determine that they have about an hour that “does not count.”  What would you have them do, all together or separately?

Remember that to make the story work, when Spring arrives then the hour comes back, but they do not know that, do not know that they will have to face whatever music follows from what they did.

Can I suggest that you send your suggestions to the following email account:  [email protected].  I will report back here as to the most promising suggestions.  The best suggestion earns the sender the right to have his or here own name appended to one of the characters — if you dare.

Think about this as Groundhog Day meets Twilight Zone; thanks in advance!