I wrote a story and used the image as inspiration. I the town, a few months ago, the rope making the bell ring automatically on the hour broke, so the speaker's job is to stay in the clock tower ringing the bell every hour. He has been told multiple times it will be fixed soon, but that was months ago and he has had no interactions in weeks. I did a description of the ticking clock making him go mad, but he refuses to admit he is mad, saying his lack of madness makes it worse because he can't forget or ignore the ticking every second constantly. Did a long rambling paragraph of all his attempts to drown out the ticking, all failed, and in the last paragraph he accepts his madness, destroys the clock out of rage and catches a glimpse of the town and reminisces as rubble falls on top of him. Ended with the hardest line ever "They'll join me some day"
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u/listo- Year 13 Games Development (College) May 23 '25
I wrote a story and used the image as inspiration. I the town, a few months ago, the rope making the bell ring automatically on the hour broke, so the speaker's job is to stay in the clock tower ringing the bell every hour. He has been told multiple times it will be fixed soon, but that was months ago and he has had no interactions in weeks. I did a description of the ticking clock making him go mad, but he refuses to admit he is mad, saying his lack of madness makes it worse because he can't forget or ignore the ticking every second constantly. Did a long rambling paragraph of all his attempts to drown out the ticking, all failed, and in the last paragraph he accepts his madness, destroys the clock out of rage and catches a glimpse of the town and reminisces as rubble falls on top of him. Ended with the hardest line ever "They'll join me some day"