Ninety Years Without Slumbering | A 100 Word Story

#267 The Twilight Zone S5 E12 12/20/1963

Tick. Tock.

“Are you listening to me, pop? We think it’s best for everyone,” she said. My daughter was talking to me. I don’t know when she arrived or what she was saying. All I could do was focus on the clock. My clock.

Tick. Tock.

It sounded like it was slowing down. What day is it? I think I need to wind it soon. It’s slowing down. I can’t let it stop ticking. It took my father and his father before him. I won’t let it take me.

Tick. Tock.

“I don’t know why I bother coming here.”

Tick…