Claire Chastain

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“Ten O'Clock” by Claire Chastain

Submitted to Contest #13

The clock struck ten times, each ring seeming louder than the last, and the whole house reverberated with its tolling.  Beth looked up from her book in surprise, as though it didn’t do this every day at exactly ten o’clock. Glancing back down at the words in her book, she realized she hadn’t moved the page in quite some time.  In fact, she couldn’t remember the last thing she had read. Perhaps she had fallen asleep. The teapot sat cooling on the stove, leftover from when she had last fired it up.  Though she suspected it was ...

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