A Silver Swiss Watch: Mr. Teller (2)
The car whirred over the silence as Mr. Teller drove to the hospital. Ross just looked at his hands. This feeling was so familiar, yet entirely new. His mind…
Time
Nobody can say What another year will bring. Certain things are guaranteed, Like the deaths of trees and Relief from the frost but What will my place be In the…
500 Years
Tic...tock...tic...tock. He stared at the old embellished iron clock on the wall. Was she coming? She had promised that she would in her last letter. His gaze…
2 Days 6 Hours and 10 Minutes (Z)
The sun was setting. The door was locked and boarded up. What light he had left was slipping away beyond the horizon. He looked through the slits in the iron…
A Steel Swiss Watch: Mr. Bainbridge
Ross examined the seemingly lifeless body. Bainbridge stood and pulled his cap over his eyes to shield out the sun. “She’s taken quite a hit,” Ross sighed…
A Silver Swiss Watch: Mr. Teller
Mr. Teller calmly placed the receiver back on its hook. Stepped out of the phone booth. Lit a cigarette. He checked his silver watch. A deep scratch had been…
A Golden Swiss Watch: Mr. Fermi
Mr. Fermi nervously adjusted his glasses as he ran to a phone booth. Everything was choking: the ash in the air, the necktie wound tightly around his collar…
A Swiss Watch: Fracture
Kyle Ross was in no hurry as he strolled down the cobblestone street, drinking in the fresh Alpine air. That song by Don McLean had been stuck in his head all…
A Swiss Watch: A Novel Idea
Breucker reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a dime store novel. It was a poor book, Ein Spaziergang um Mitternacht, but it gave him something to…
Air Over Open Water
The leaves are numerous, Noon illuminated, Nearly neon green, Consuming light the clouds can’t catch-- While the wind’s whims Dance branches like puppet limbs…
Generation
I am in love with whoever I am talking to at the moment And at the moment I am talking to myself. I have caked my face with conforming thoughts And put any…
Back to the Rain.
The sun shone down on the gleaming tarmac like a blowtorch on impossible ice as the plane finally came to a stop. England once more! the land of my fathers…
Time Traveling Man II
So full of soul, but parading around with empty eyes I won’t stay in one place, my weakness I will disguise I’m a time travelin’ man with a stay at home wife…
An absence of existence, and therefore, an absence of light.
To be erased from time does not feel like much of anything. Rather, it feels like the absence of feeling, since the emotions don’t, and never did, exist in the…
Two Hands, One Round Face
Time passes oh so slowly. Time passes without consent. I have tried to turn back the hour hand, the minute hand, and will the second hand to stop its annoying…
12:28:37.12pm pt.3
Meneghel leisurely wandered into the marketplace, he had plenty of time. suitcase he was carrying must have weighed at least 60lbs, but to him it felt…
12:28:37.12pm pt.2
Blake walked into the marketplace and glanced around nervously. It was here somewhere, he was sure. His earpiece crackled to life. “Have you found it?” “No…
Travelling Light
‘When the clock strikes one, all memories shall be extinguished!’, the shrill voice sliced through the air. ‘Right,’ he thought as his hand raced through the…
Cosmic Leftovers
“So I’ve been thinking of moving out of my parents’ place,” said the six-limbed fawn-like being as it stirred an expresso in the pan-dimensional coffee shop…
Loop
At which point I eyed my “helper” accusingly, angered by this attempt at low humor. He looked surprised and then said “I thought you’d understand”, his face…