The Hourglass

John Oldaker was only six years old when his Grandmother moved into the family home. A mean spirited and broken women, she makes the family’s life a living hell.

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Young John retreats into his shell, until one fateful Christmas where he vows to get her back for everything she has put them all through.

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But how? Perhaps the answers lie in his Grandmothers strange routine; returning to her room over and over again, where she religiously turns a mysterious hourglass once every fifty five minutes.

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By watching her, he comes to believe that she turns the glass to prolong her life for just one hour more, never letting the sands come to rest.

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Superstition? Coincidence? Or is there something more terrifying at play?

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What is certain, is that John won’t discover the true story of the hourglass until adulthood, when it inexplicably makes its way back into his life.