"I want to turn back the hands on the clock and change it all, make it different; three friends who meet up by chance in an old city and share a beer and laugh at old stories and jokes. But it wasn't like that; and the clock has no hands, so I can't turn them back." p.171] Alex Carlise has returned to a place he thought he'd never see again, outside of his dreams. As he walks the ochre-dusted road to the house in which he grew...