Enjoy an excerpt from Valerie Alexander’s “The Girls of Summer” featured in our newest anthology ON TIME. After Nikki Drayton’s funeral, everyone gathered at her parents’ house with trays of lasagna and bowls of pasta salad and foil-wrapped pies. The other parents admired Nikki’s recent senior portrait and helped her mother to a chair when she…
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An ON TIME Excerpt: “Delivery Spéciale” by Rohit Sawant
Enjoy an excerpt from Rohit Sawant’s “Delivery Spéciale” featured in our newest anthology ON TIME. 1 Crossing paths with Ajay at the petrol pump was like a bear trap set by fate. And I walked right in. Or rather rode in on my Bajaj Pulsar. The one time I wasn’t tardy about refilling my bike’s tank,…
An ON TIME Excerpt: “PODs” by Emerian Rich
Enjoy an excerpt from Emerian Rich’s “PODs” featured in our newest anthology ON TIME. Waiting in traffic for the San Francisco-Los Angeles Transbay Tunnel was bad enough, but with her interview at L.A.’s most prestigious animation studio in an hour, Kelly grew beyond fidgety. True, the SyncTank Animation building was only five minutes from the tunnel…
An ON TIME Excerpt: “The Unloved Dead” by D. Allen Crowley
Enjoy an excerpt from D. Allen Crowley’s “The Unloved Dead” featured in our newest anthology ON TIME. Autumn 1917 was warm, the warmest in memory, but the home where Claire had grown up was comfortably cool. Designed that way, the floor-to-ceiling windows of Claire’s bedroom admitted a continuous breeze that blew off of the green-blue expanse…
An ON TIME Excerpt: “Wasted” by Linda G. Hill
Enjoy an excerpt from Linda G. Hill’s “Wasted” featured in our new anthology ON TIME. What if your time was not wasted? Phyllis mulled the question over as she washed her breakfast dishes and stared out the window at the dismal February day. A damp squirrel ran across the back lawn, scavenging for food on the…
An ON TIME Excerpt: “Borrowed Time, Inc.” by Jason M. Light
Enjoy an excerpt from Jason M. Light’s “Borrowed Time, Inc.” featured in our new anthology ON TIME. It’s been several years since Marianne died, and we were only married two when it happened. I moved on, that’s it. Sold the house and got a studio apartment, replaced the furniture. I don’t have much room. That’s what I…
An ON TIME Excerpt: “Popcorn” by Michael J. Moore
Enjoy an excerpt from Michael J. Moore’s “Popcorn” featured in our new anthology ON TIME. The sky was baby blue the day Tommy’s Grandfather died. He never called him Grandfather to his face because he preferred Grandpa. He tried not to call him that either. Even at eight, the titles used to refer to family members…
An ON TIME Excerpt: “The Time Loop Loophole” by Madison Estes
Enjoy an excerpt from Madison Estes’s “The Time Loop Loophole” featured in our new anthology ON TIME. Vincent Stanson used to volunteer at a local nursing home, not because he loved doing gazillion piece puzzles with old people who weren’t all there in the head, or because he loved the smell of folks who no longer…
An ON TIME Excerpt: “Something in the Way” by Benjamin Blake
Enjoy an excerpt from Benjamin Blake’s “Something in the Way” featured in our new anthology ON TIME. Prologue Henry Beaufort navigated the fir-bordered back road. A stormy autumn night somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, the rain came down hard. On the left-hand side of the road, a greeting sign came into view: WELCOME TO TWIN HILLS…
An ON TIME Excerpt: “Eugene” by Evan M. Elgin
Enjoy an excerpt from Evan M. Elgin’s “Eugene” featured in our new anthology ON TIME. You don’t know me, but you will. I’m seven going on seventy. And here are all my friends: Mary-Lee is the pretty girl down the street. Her hair is golden like the sun. Most days, she skipped rope, hopping a two-step…
An ON TIME Excerpt: “30 Days with Fletcher” by J.C. Raye
Enjoy an excerpt from J.C. Raye’s “30 Days with Fletcher” featured in our new anthology ON TIME. Day One, 10:00 PM The cashier finally stopped giving me the eyeball. Too busy flirting with some pretty gal in Wonder Woman hot pants wanting lottery tickets. Like he had a snowball’s chance in hell of impressing her with…
Jalyn Renae Fiske, an ON TIME Author Interview
Join us as we peek behind the scenes of our new anthology, ON TIME. Learn more about Jalyn Renae Fiske in her featured interview.
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