“The Chronologist” by Ian R. MacLeod

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Story can be read on-line: https://www.tor.com/2022/02/09/the-chronologist-ian-r-macleod/

Rating: 3/5 Stars

An interesting story of a boy in a town whose routines are slightly askew (it’s always summer, for instance) because the clocks that make time past are not measuring the passage of time correctly. Until a time-keeper comes to mend the clocks, and mend time.

But the boy’s desire for a change in his daily routine makes him steal an item from the time-keeper, which he uses to make all time askew to get the time-keeper to return, so he may escape with him. But time has a plan of its own for the boy, which leads to a possibly inevitable conclusion about the boy and the time-keeper.

Story read from 2022/05/03 to 2022/05/04