During a visit to the fortune-teller Madame X, you are told that you do not have much longer in this world. Even now, the sands of time are running out and Death sits in his house sharpening his scythe ready to collect your soul. But, you do have one chance, which is to substitute your life glass with something with more sand in it and travel through the strange land to confront Death.
Notes
Published as PD at least as early as 1990; probably circa 1988.