In the summer of 2019, Luna pulled off Interstate 55 at Exit 73, somewhere between Missouri and nowhere. A twenty-four-hour burger joint called 'The Hub' sat alone under a buzzing sign. She ordered at 2:13 a.m. — a number forty-three combo with a chocolate shake. The cashier, a girl named Beth with tired eyes and a name tag that didn't fit right, took her money and said, 'You might want to sit near the door.' At first, the place seemed normal: sticky floors, a flickering fryer, the low hum of a cooler. But the clock behind the counter kept resetting to 2:13 a.m. Every time Luna looked, it was 2:13 again. And the orders kept coming out wrong — not the food, but the tickets. Receipts with her name, her order number, but dates from months ago. Then from next year. Then from a date that didn't exist. Beth wouldn't meet her eyes. The manager, a man with a nametag reading 'David,' just stared at the fryer. And the drive-thru speaker kept crackling with a voice repeating the same order: number forty-three, chocolate shake, no ice. Over and over. Luna ate her burger cold, watching the second hand of the clock twitch backward, and understood that some places exist in the space between minutes — where time loops like a skipped record, and the night shift never ends.