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If the Old Clock Could Talk
Would we believe the whispered stories it shared?
This is a fiction story, inspired by a theme of “time” proposed by Jason Edmunds in A Taste for Life publication. The opening sentence was offered as a writing spark.
“The old wall clock in the cellar whispers stories of an era gone by.”
Priscilla shivered as she remembered the first time her grandmother held her hand, telling her stories about the family’s special clock. Grandmother Amara told her there would be a time in Priscilla’s life where she felt magnetically attracted to the clock and the stories kept inside — no matter where the clock was placed.
Priscilla believed that gravitational force had been pulling her down the winding staircase so often, recently. She truly felt like a magnet linked her to the clock that now rested in its special place, albeit two floors below her bedroom. The clock had been a prominent fixture in the family’s first home; and now it resided on a wall in the cellar.
Everything about her family’s heritage — and all the stories — filled Priscilla’s vivid imagination and her everyday thoughts with endless questions and hypotheses. While other girls had imaginary friends, stuffed animals, or playmates from the neighborhood, Priscilla embraced solitude. She thrived on time alone…
