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Submitted to Contest #252
In the quiet town of Eldridge, nestled among rolling hills and dense forests, lived an old clockmaker named Elias. His shop, "Tick Tock Treasures," was a haven of gears, springs, and pendulums, where the steady tick-tick-tick of clocks created a comforting rhythm. Elias was known far and wide for his craftsmanship, but more so for a peculiar legend: it was said he could build clocks that could manipulate time itself. One crisp autumn morning, a stranger walked into Elias's shop. Dressed in a dark overcoat and wearing a wide-brimmed hat that ...
Submitted to Contest #251
Books were Nellie Forest’s passion. They were her sanctum, her thrill, and her distraction. She was known to read novels, biographies, histories, or any other publication with the same gusto, often becoming lost in the maze of plots and lives. But now it was different. It began innocently. Nellie was reading a Sandra Woods detective “The Whispering Shadows” when the protagonist, Amelia, while cleaning an old dusty attic, stumbled upon an ancient locket. The next morning, Nellie went into her own attic and found a locket – it, to be sure, was...
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