Imelda Michalczyk

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“Is This Our Stop? ” by Imelda Michalczyk

Submitted to Contest #168

All that could be heard across the wide concrete expanse of the platform was the ticking. Levon looked up. Why give sound to a clock? The indefinable beauty of the movement of time could not be reduced to the tally of a short, sharp noise. Does sunlight need centimetres? Does outer space require scales? The tick, tick, tick of the station’s clock gave no indication as to which particular second had passed or which specific minute had gone by. No meaningful value to this monotony. Levon closed his weak eye and shot a glare at the loud time ma...

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A British writer based in the Netherlands. New to Reedsy, looking forward to discovering all it has to offer!