When Big Ben Stopped (Short Story)

By P.J. Leonard

From P.J. Leonard, author of 'Tick', 'Kami' and 'Sarah Sues Santa' comes a story that will make time itself stand still...

"Nobody would have expected the bell of Big Ben to freeze one second before midnight on December 31st. Least of all me: after all, I’m the mechanic who maintains the thing. But that wasn’t even the most shocking thing. No, it was the fact that everybody else in the world had frozen with it. Except me..."

Follow the chief machanic of Big Ben as he unravels the mystery of the frozen time. Why has it happened? Why one second before the New Year? The answers are out there...

• Language: English
• Publisher: P.J. Leonard
• Release date: Jan 31, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370928842

P.J. Leonard

P.J. Leonard grew up in Worcester, UK. He moved to Japan in 2010 and has lived there ever since, enjoying the culture, the hiking, and the traditional Japanese sport of tussling for the free seat on the train every morning at rush hour.He first found a love for writing aged nine, when he took what was meant to be a one-page short story assignment and turned it into a 10-page epic, much to the chagrin of his teachers. He's been writing ever since.

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