Amaretto Stories

"Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits." Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Francesca Amaretto Covington was a normal girl until she received a strange present form her godmother: an Hourglass. Like most girls, she forgot about it. When she grew up however, she relearned the properties of the present – the ability to travel through time and space. Who would have thought that a tiny hourglass on a necklace would be so important? Amaretto would soon learn that with the ability to travel through dimensions, came the responsibility of handling it properly. However, when she is partially tricked into a “test run” of owning the glass, she finds that more is at stake than just her ownership of one of the most powerful Artefacts in the universe.