Carol Pascuzzi

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“Time is a Fickle Lover” by Carol Pascuzzi

Submitted to Contest #49

Mabel glanced at the large white-faced clock hanging high on the wall across the narrow hallway. Twenty past. The clock reminded her of the ones that hung high above the door in every classroom in her secondary school. Those clocks seemed to bend time, the large black hands decelerating as soon as the teachers would begin their lessons, the red second hand ticking agonizingly slow, taunting her above the exit door she so desperately wanted to run through. Forty minutes. Her pulse quickened briefly. Deep breaths.&nb...

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