Sophia Nguyen

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“The Watcher's Hour” by Sophia Nguyen

Submitted to Contest #275

I turned the pocket watch over in my palm and inspected it in the candlelight, its gold casing tarnished and stained by age, a delicate thread of a crack splintering the glass. I was pleased with my discovery, despite its broken state. Antiques fascinated me—it was what brought me to this desolate town in the first place, its Victorian Gothic charm. All the houses here seemed to be preserved in an entirely different century, the neighbors elusive, with the neighborhood cloaked under a constant, suffocating fog. The previous owner of the hous...

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