Holiday

He inserts the last of the cogs and the hundred-thousand mechanisms begin to turn.

'Right, that's me.'

'You off now? How long?'

He smiles. It's been a long project. A millennium, for one clock. But what a clock.

'Two centuries.'

'You gonna get up to much?'

'Sleep,' he says. 'Then get some food. Then think about the next job.'

Paddy Dobson

29th May 2022