It's You Every Time

“It’s You Every Time” by Charlene Thomas follows main characters Sydney and Marcus as they live through a Groundhog Day-type scenario, revisiting the same day over and over and over again, unsure how to “unstick” themselves from the repetition. However, through the process, they begin learning more about each other, and while they aren’t sure at first whether or not the other one knows what’s happening, they keep up the ruse as they don’t want to make themselves sound crazy by saying the same day is happening time and time again.

When Sydney first runs into Marcus when they’re grabbing their breakfast sandwiches, she is enamored of him and thinks that spending the day with him sounds intriguing. Spending their days together becomes the only thing they each start looking forward to as the days all mesh together and time seemingly stands still beyond the less than 24 hours they have with each other before it all falls away.

Their friendship eventually turns into something more, and they find solace in having each other to lean on as they cope with losses that they have both been holding in, causing them additional suffering since they haven’t had anyone to truly share their sorrows with on a larger scale. Being there for each other opens them up to possibilities, and the hope that they can eventually get out of their never-ending day.

“It’s You Every Time” touches on themes of love, loss, hope, depression, warmth, kindness, truth, and maybe most importantly, finding themselves in a world that has stopped moving for reasons they have to figure out in order to move forward.