They Said I Would Ruin the Wedding So I Stayed Home and Watched What Happened Next

light leave the mountains. The pocket watch was on the table beside me, ticking steadily in the cooling air, keeping time the way it had been built to keep time, the way it had been doing all along, waiting only for someone to wind it.

I was, for the first time in thirty-five years, the only person whose life I was responsible for.

It felt, more than continue reading …