-finished- - Version- Final - Deadlocked In Time

The clock on the wall had not moved in eleven years.

Not because it was broken. The gears were pristine, the battery replaced every spring by a man in a grey coat who never spoke. He came, he clicked the new cell into place, he left. And the hands remained frozen at 11:17. Deadlocked in Time -Finished- - Version- Final

So he learned to live in 11:17.

It was 11:18.

Version: Final

Once.