Everything takes place over a few hours, or entirely set during the immediate aftermath of an automobile crash, for example?
I’d like to avoid “and it was all a dream”, time travel, or similar plot devices if possible.
I’m curious what a novel of any length purposely confined to a strict time window in-story reads like.
Maybe I should be reading more plays.
Thanks.
Try the classical Greek tragedies—one of the requirements of the genre is that the action is supposed to take place in less than a day (Aristotle’s “unity of time”).
I’ll look into the unity of time, thanks