The Antimeridian

From Switzerland to Spain to a remote island in the South Pacific that straddles the International Date Line, Dale is being chased all around the world--or at least he thinks he is. His pursuer, a creature called Hieroglyphus, is trying to control the space-time continuum by means of something called the Ideal Clock. There's just one problem: at any given moment Dale can never be sure where--or who--Hieroglyphus is. This short story by Sean Munger, author of "Life Without Giamotti," explores the boundaries of human conceptions of time, and why time may not always be as straightforward as it seems.