Art is Relative
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A short piece featuring a watchmaker. I wanted to try writing about something I knew little about, so I chose the process of crafting a pocket watch. *update* I wrote a short story based on the short piece. In a fantasy world at war, an innovative watchmaker finds herself required to mend a clockwork machine gun in order to save her life.
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