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Submitted to Contest #328
Trigger Warning: This story contains themes of grief, death, substance use, and psychological distress. The town of Greybridge crept along at its own quiet pace - never quite keeping up with everywhere else.The trains arrived behind schedule, while the river slowed right down under the hot sun; folks - mostly elders - insisted their timepieces never matched up with others’. A few figured it was on account of all clocks being built by Arthur Quinn. More believed Greybridge just refused to release its own pieces of time.As Elias Quinn got off...
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