Vertelling: The One-day Man (English)
Written by Ihor Antoniuk
Translated from Ukrainian by Anna Bendiy
I dare say you never even spoke to Time
Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he’d do
almost anything you liked with the clock.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
I don’t know how much time I have left.
This story might end at any moment, dying on an unfinished sentence, dangling on half a word. You’ll have to put the period in this bizarre tale yourself. Yes, you — the person who took it upon themselves to read these twisted lines, written by an insane man, who will never see the light of day again. The next movement of the clock’s hands might become my last.
The glitches began about a week ago.
Or maybe ten…twelve days. Twenty max. It’s difficult to find the origin of this hellish situation....