Guest Post Julie Weinstein

My Boss Has an Atomic Clock

She is the clock warden and someone’s late again. Two minutes or eight it’s argued. Tick,tock, tick, tock. “They’re always behind, ” she yells, “or rather behind something.

“No, this can’t be,” she screams, knots form on her forehead. The blue veins are poking through her white skin. “It’s mine, mine,” she yells, though no person is listening. The clock you see, she claims, it
must be hers, it has to be, she seethes; her undulated, elongated, exasperated
anger is ready to explode.

The boss is no mastery of time, not if she can’t control their beat. This she hates. Tick, tock, tick tock, the seconds are even ticking louder than she wants. “It can’t be,” she rubs at her forehead.

Three minutes, seven minutes, another employee’s late. Tick tock, tick, tock. She makes notes. Fifteen people on time, two staggering. Again! She yells exasperated.

Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo goes the clock on the hour. 59 minutes more. The boss presses down on her forehead. It’s so hot, brewing like steam. Half water, half air, it can’t be contained, not this moment or that one
or the next. And it’s not the only one.

Ackoo, coughs the clock. There is discord. The boss can’t tell time. Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo goes the clock literally. The boss blows, mouth open, agape. No sound comes out. Her eyes bulge. The clock’s hands spin
round and round. The boss yells, “Time is failing.”

No it’s falling. And so is she, lingering sideways like the clocks once majestic hands that are now bent. She reaches for its curled fingers, but they won’t let her.

Cuckoo, cuckoo, the hands keep curling.

***I made a mistake when I made the post her info last time and she was very kind in pointing it out to me:” I hope you'd be willing to add a little note to the original post or on my new guest blog that my book is
published by All Things That Matter Press. They maybe a small press but they
are good people and have a nice team of authors and are creating a sense of
community among the authors.

Warm regards,

Julie Weinstein

My blog is flashesfromtheotherworld.com.

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