Why the weird clock? Thank you for asking. The clock, designed by Igor Barbashin and Daria Volokhova, tells time by reassembling its shattered numbers. I thought it a nice image to go with the title of my short sf story "The Boy Who Shattered Time," which will be out and online in the next issue of The Future Fire. The story is about a reluctant time traveller conscripted by a corrupt government to return to the past for the purpose of building the present. All those pyramids didn't get there by themselves, you know, the corrupt future government claims. Of course, it being a story, nothing is as it first seems.
I've been writing short fiction for about 25 years. The stuff I wrote from age 17 - 21 was destroyed in a fit of self-loathing. That great purge allowed me to romanticize my early fiction. It was earth-shatteringly great, you know. Too bad I can't show you. And so, I've spent the last twenty-some years trying to match the imagined glory of those early stories.
A couple of my recent stories -- all speculative fiction -- have been published under a pseudonym, which I will never reveal as it is also the password to every internet account I hold. "The Boy Who Shattered Time" will be the first story published under my legal name (Hieronymus Q Waglestein, if we've just met...nice to meet you), if you forget about some earlier forgettable stories that no one even remembers published in magazines that no longer exist.
So, watch The Future Fire for a story in the next while.
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