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Tio Sage I am a copywriter and digital marketer. @ Adekunle Ajasin University
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In Education • 2 min read • May 28, 2025 02:19a.m.
The Clockmaker’s Promise
<p>Absolutely! Here’s a fresh and heartfelt short story with a touch of quiet magic and hope:</p><p><br></p><p>---</p><p><br></p><p>**Title: “The Clockmaker’s Promise”**</p><p><br></p><p>In a small village nestled between the hills and sea, there lived an old clockmaker named Elias. His hands were worn, his beard like snow, and his shop was filled with the ticking of a hundred clocks — each telling its own story, each alive with purpose.</p><p><br></p><p>Elias wasn’t just any clockmaker. It was said that the clocks he repaired could mend more than just time — they could heal memories, mend hearts, even rekindle forgotten love.</p><p><br></p><p>No one believed the stories anymore. Except for Ava.</p><p><br></p><p>Ava, quiet and thoughtful, had lived in the village her whole life. She visited Elias’s shop every Saturday, never buying anything, just listening. One day, she brought a broken pocket watch. It was her grandfather’s — stopped the day her parents died in a car accident.</p><p><br></p><p>Elias examined it carefully. “This clock doesn’t just tell time,” he murmured. “It holds it.”</p><p><br></p><p>“What do you mean?” Ava asked.</p><p><br></p><p>“You'll see,” he said, with a smile that hid centuries of wisdom.</p><p><br></p><p>He asked her to return in a week.</p><p><br></p><p>When Ava came back, Elias handed her the watch, gleaming and alive again. “Wind it once, and you’ll have five minutes,” he said. “Use them wisely.”</p><p><br></p><p>She didn’t understand—until she wound it.</p><p><br></p><p>The room shimmered.</p><p><br></p><p>Suddenly, she was seven years old again, sitting between her parents on a sunlit hill, laughter in the wind and a kite soaring above them. She knew it wasn’t forever, but for five minutes, she felt what she'd thought she lost forever.</p><p><br></p><p>When the watch stopped, she cried.</p><p><br></p><p>Elias didn’t say a word—just nodded, as if he understood exactly what she needed.</p><p><br></p><p>Years later, after Elias passed, Ava took over the shop. She never told anyone the secret of the clocks.</p><p><br></p><p>But every now and then, someone would walk in with a broken watch, full of grief and longing—and leave a little lighter than they came.</p><p><br></p><p>---</p><p><br></p><p>Would you like a version of this story with a darker twist? Or perhaps a fantasy or romance variation?</p><p><br></p>
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