Several things you may add to improve the narrative:

- Even simple text-based games may require you to be expressive in some ways, in this case you only change color, but I recommend adding text effects, some images indicating which item you are holding, a map to show the next area you can come to.

- The font is too generic, you may use multiple fonts to ease the boredom of reading long text.

- Other than that, the story was fun, with lots of choices (still too little impact, I think you should implement more diverse outcome). 

I like books, I like reading, this has reading, I like reading. Fun story, but I'd give some flavour or some reason for the options that result in:"you dont find anything here"

Fun game if you're into text adventures! Haven't seen those in a long time so it's kinda cool to see someone just doing it even though it's not the most popular category! <3

I liked it!

I do have some things to note, but just keep in mind that overall I think it was a good story. I think that the concept was great but it doesn't take advantage of the text adventure format nearly enough. One of the amazing things about text adventures that is part of the whole reason they were so popular IMO is the free-form gameplay. Once you know the base set of commands (move, go, go to, open, pick up, etc) it can become a very immersive genre where you are effectively translating what you would do directly to the game.

Restricting the options to menus reduces that feeling, and automating the player's actions in a railroady way also does. As well, it felt like there was no direction in the narrative if that made sense - I felt the need to keep gazing into the bowl as there was no indicator of what i was supposed to be doing after I had hung up the coat. 

At the end of the day, because of those restrictions, it feels like this game would have been REALLY good as a point-and-click graphical adventure in the vein of  The Neverhood, Kings Quest or the Monkey Island games, and with a minor hint indicator of what the player needs to do that comes up between actions (when you finish the coat hanging, character should remark about the knitting). It already plays exactly like one but just without the visuals, rather than playing like a traditional text adventure, so giving it those extra features would just push it to another level.

Overall I really enjoyed it though.  Don't take this as me being harsh; I give it a 3/5 overall, it's a pretty good adventure game especially provided the limitations of the jam. I just think it crosses genres (text adventure style presentation, point and click style adventure/gameplay) in a way that doesn't really work.

I love it! 

The combination of the time travel mechanic and the vivid, poetic descriptions of the setting makes for genius story telling. I enjoyed exploring the house and seeing what my actions did, however, I did get stuck sometimes, as it wasn't obvious whether or not I was carrying an item I found or not. An inventory or simply a statement that I picked up an item would've helped. Luckily, I could stare into the toilet bowl for hints, which is very useful. The bits of dry humour scattered through the writing was the cherry on top.

Very nice narrative game! I almost always had an idea of what to do, and where to go next. There was just the right amount of exploration, but not too much so that I would get lost. Little things like having the text color be different in the present vs the past were very helpful. I like that the themes were subtle, but definitely there. Great job!