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CLOCKWORK SYMPHONY • by Jack Curran

August 24, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Silas was the son of a watchmaker, but although he dutifully followed his father’s craft, he dreamed of becoming a musician instead. By day he toiled in the workshop, greasing gears, replacing springs and calibrating the minute mechanisms of the… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories clockwork, following dreams, inventors, Jack Curran, music, steampunk

SPEED DEMON AND CLOCKWORK DANCER • by JR Hume

October 22, 2013Every Day Fiction 13 Comments

“He’s built for speed. A regular speed demon.” Those were the first words heard and understood by steam locomotive number 9028. He considered the phrase in the steel matrix of his mind and decided Speed Demon was a good name… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories clockwork, JR Hume, love, trains

FLOWERS FOR CLOCKWORK STREET • by Jennifer R. Fierro

August 30, 2011Every Day Fiction 36 Comments

She breezed through his door, ringing the bell like a music box, and tossed coins across his table. They clinked together, flashed gold, and he found himself wandering out of a painting of clouds and into her eyes. “Sky Painter… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories art, clockwork, Jennifer R. Fierro

CLICKS AND WHIRS • by Kurt Kirchmeier

December 7, 2010Every Day Fiction 21 Comments

Lincoln Charles hobbled to the end of his driveway wearing only his old man slippers and silk pyjamas, the ones with Marvin the Martian on them. Twilight was fading; time to wind up the beast. He paused next to a… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories clockwork, Kurt Kirchmeier

THE GIRL WITH THE CLOCKWORK HEART • by C.L. Holland

October 9, 2010Every Day Fiction 16 Comments

Once upon a time there was a girl whose heart had broken from grief. Such was the pain of her broken heart that she went to a kindly watchmaker and asked him to make her a new one out of… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories C.L. Holland, clockwork

TICK TOCK • by John Raybould

November 18, 2007Every Day Fiction 9 Comments

‘Tick Tock.’ Simon had been a clock maker for forty-three years, and had worked on thousands of them, but this was his favourite, the old skeleton-style church clock. ‘Tick Tock.’ This was definitely one of the largest, and had been… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories clockwork, John Raybould
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