'Slumbering Through Time and Trace (a modern adaptation of Revenge of the Flowers' by Freyia Lilian Porteous

The second hand alarm clock, which perches, owl-like and wise on her windowsill, reads three thirty two. Father time, she bought him from a flea market, attracted to the strange tinny sheen and old-fashioned bell mechanism. He began his life in the 1950s. 1952 to be precise. On the 15th of February, around midday he was finished, and polished, and packed. He was first sent to a department store in Wakefield, where he was purchased two weeks later by a woman named April with a bad stutter and very bright blue eyes. After serving her faithfully for twenty four years, the clock was lost when April divorced her first husband, and moved to London. She has since lost her bad stutter, as well as her faithful clock.