A quiet clockmaker discovers a universe hidden between the seconds… and the one person he lost who never left. Walter Hagerty spends his days repairing broken clocks in a small New England shop, surrounded by ticking hearts of wood and brass. But after a strange freeze in the pendulum of an old grandfather clock, Walter begins to notice something impossible, a world that exists in the sliver of time between the tick and the tock. At first, it’s a shimmer. A soft hum. A resonance only he can hear. But then he sees her. Marion. His wife. Gone for years… yet standing in the quiet glow of the clock shop as if time had simply folded to make room for her. As Walter begins to slip deeper into the hidden realm between seconds, he discovers a truth more beautiful, and more heartbreaking, than anything he ever imagined. The clocks he repairs aren’t just keeping time. They’re holding memories. Echoes. Love. And the fragile bridge between the living and the remembered. Gentle. Emotional. Mind-bending. Grandfather Clock is a haunting, tender novella about grief, time, and the spaces we overlook—until someone shows us how to see them.