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Mark Buro

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Mark Buro

Submitted to Contest #247

Warning: Religious themes and graphic content. All day, every day, August Wittman is accompanied by the ticking of the clocks. They maintain tempo in his monotonous timetable. The clocks exist as a metronome, producing a steady beat for August to operate through. He reinstalls the weight to the first chain of the old grandfather clock, the minute-hand pulsing as though blood was being pumped into its mechanical heart. August's own body comes into synchronization with the clock, the pendulum swinging as though an extension of his breath. Al...

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