Rocks that look like normal rocks: grey, brown, mottled, hard, malformed or smooth. Big, small, sharp-edged, sea-worn, pocket-carried, strewn. Under which you can find extra hours, years, or minutes that you can use for your life.

It's never clear which are the time-rocks and which are the regular earth-rocks, so to speak. You'll have to lift both kinds when you are looking; and of course, lifting rocks takes time. Careful that: by searching for extra time, you may lose the time you have.

But if you're lucky enough to find a time rock, it's like winning the lottery. You might find 1, 2 or 5 fresh hours you can insert into any day. Or you might find a week, a year, a decade... or even the whole of your youth to replay.

The hours are nestled like eggs, you'll know them when you see them. Perfectly round and softly glowing.

Put them in your pocket, use when necessary.