(6)IT’S LATER THAN SHE THINKS
Ellie thinks she has time on her hands. Checks the watch at her wrist - nods to confirm she’s early. He’s the one should be early, she thinks. And he is, and he’s late now, too, if you get my meaning. And Ellie sees a crowd gathered round a fallen pedestrian.
(7)THE BREAKABLE PERFECT MOMENT
If time could only stand still. In this moment. Not moving forward or back from where we are now. No threat of unhappiness waiting round the corner. No return to how things were before. Just a boy called Ed first-kissing a girl called Mary and the whole world looking on.
(8)TIME FOR A NEW CLOCK, LINDY
He’d come in late and knocked the table by Lindy’s bed, upsetting an undrunk cup and the clock swimming in cold sweet coffee till morning when the absence of ticking woke her at last. Lindy opened up the back and tried to wash it clean and then bake it dry.
(9)BEN BUTTON AND CHER
Seen that film? The one about time and the clock running backwards, a child born into old age, growing into childhood? And that song, have you heard it? About turning back time, Cher, her wrinkles smoothed flat, pretending to be young? You don’t have to grow old gracefully, it seems.
(10)I THINK MY DAD KNEW
I think he knew. All that business with changing his watch every year. Looking for the perfect timekeeper; but they were all too fast, he said. I can see him still, staring at the turning second hand, cursing how carelessly it tossed time away. In my memory I see him.
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