A time traveler gets stuck in a past century with no way back

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Title: Trapped in Time
Dr. Elias Vance was never meant to stay in the past. A physicist and inventor, he had spent years perfecting what was supposed to be the first functional time machine. The experiment was simple: travel back two hundred years, observe for one hour, and return. But something went wrong.
Now, Elias finds himself stranded in the early 1800s, with no working machine, no modern technology, and no way to communicate with the future. The device, his life's work, lay in pieces—its intricate circuits useless in an era where electricity itself was barely understood.
As the days turn into weeks, Elias is forced to adapt. His knowledge of science and medicine earns him a place in society, but he must tread carefully—too much knowledge could brand him a heretic, a fraud, or worse. Meanwhile, he searches desperately for any way to recreate even a fraction of the technology needed to return home.
But the more he fights to leave, the more he begins to question: Was he sent here by accident, or was this where he was always meant to be?
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