The Clockmaker's Widow

When Marian Hale’s husband, Elias, dies in a tragic carriage accident, she is left with his most curious creation: a brass clock that runs backward under a glass dome. For twenty years it has sat untouched in her quiet coastal home, hidden beneath a sheet and locked away with her memories. But when a stranger arrives claiming to know Elias’s “unfinished work,” the clock begins ticking again—unwound, unbidden, and impossibly alive.
As whispers of the past bleed into Marian’s dreams, she’s drawn into a web of secrets Elias never shared—gaps in his final days, cryptic notes, and a series of chilling numbers appearing on her window each morning. Dr. Corbin, the unsettling visitor, warns that the clock does more than measure time: it changes it. But every gift comes with a price.
The closer Marian gets to the truth, the more reality begins to warp around her—subtle at first, then impossibly so. The clock’s pull is undeniable, its bargain already in motion, and the answers lie buried in the choices Elias made before his death.
What begins as a haunting curiosity becomes a desperate race against something she can’t see, only feel—an unseen countdown that may already be too far gone to stop.
If time could be rewritten for you… how much of it would you take, and who would you let pay the cost?