1. The Clockmaker’s Regret.
By the time the brass gears will have been grinding against the salt of his tears, the ancient master had already forgotten why he shall be winding the mainspring for a ghost’s cold hand.
2. The Sunken CathedralBeneath the tides where the bells had been ringing since before the sea was born, the drowned monks shall have been chanting hymns that the water would always have swallowed before they were heard.
3. The Alchemist’s EquationIf the lead were to have turned into gold while the fire is freezing the hearth, the philosopher will have been laughing at the stars which had supposedly died ten thousand years before tonight.
4. The Last LibraryEvery book that will be written has already been burned by the librarians who were guarding the ashes of a future that would have happened if the ink shall not have turned to dust.
5. The Nomad’s MapWhere the desert is going to have become an ocean, the traveler had been walking toward a horizon that will have retreated until the sun would have set in the middle of the morning.
6. The Glacial SleepThe ice shall be whispering secrets that the earth had known before the mountains were being pushed toward a sky that will have turned purple by the time the frost would finally have melted.
7. The Weaver’s LoomShe would have been spinning the silver thread into a shroud for the king who shall be born tomorrow, yet the silk had already unraveled while the needle is piercing her own tired heart.
8. The Midnight CarnivalThe carousel will have been spinning backward while the children had been crying for a summer that would never have ended if the moon shall not have been eclipsed by a giant clockwork owl.
9. The Fossil’s DreamA stone bird had been flying through the strata of a mountain that will be becoming a cloud, while the rain would have been falling upward if the gravity shall have changed its mind.
10. The Final BreathAs the universe is collapsing into a single spark, every word that had been spoken will have been echoing through a silence that would have lasted until the light shall have reinvented
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