The Tuesday Thief of Briarwhistle
by Lorvoker
Fantasy
In the clock-garden of Briarwhistle, where every hour of the week blooms as a flower, keeper Oswin Pike wakes one foggy dawn to find every Tuesday picked down to the stem — pressed into a jam jar by Tansy, the baker's daughter, to stretch out the Mondays when her grandmother still remembers everyone's name. Before the Midsummer Chime sets the week hard for a year, Oswin must choose between replanting the Tuesdays to save the town's markets, weddings and rent days, or helping Tansy hide the jar and letting Briarwhistle go without.