Transmundane Press believes in evil, it’s the good they’re not sure about. In writing Abra, I couldn’t find a hero. Everyone was as real as breakfast toast and no one was about to win the citizen of the year award from their town. Saints have been in extemely limited supply in my part of the world….
Tag: In The Air
Lorraine Schein, an IN THE AIR Author Interview
On the verge of a new anthology, we are celebrating IN THE AIR with a behind the scenes view of authors and their stories. Here’s a look at Lorraine Schein and her story “Wind Advisory.” ABOUT THE STORY Tell me a little about your story and the world you’ve created. My story was inspired by…
An IN THE AIR Excerpt: “Promethia” by Kelly J. Massey
Fine gossamer wings fluttered in shades of lavender, storm gray, and sea glass green around Promethia as they flew back to their home on the mountainside. Only gentle breezes blew about them at the end of the day. Many would have spent their energies gathering rain into storm clouds or generating the flashing lightning and…
An IN THE AIR Excerpt: “The Harmonica” by Rohit Sawant
Ray wrapped the gift paper around the little box. Should he log onto the store’s website and check again? Maybe it was out for delivery. But it was only wishful thinking. He sighed and let his fingers mechanically spider over the box, pulling the paper taut, yanking bits of tape, enclosing it in its brightly…
An IN THE AIR Excerpt: “The Cult of the Hyalad” by Adrik Kemp
The sisters stared into the flames, fingers clasped around their matching glass pendants, threaded with small beads of different smoky hues. Mina’s pale blue, and Winnie’s pink. The colours reflected firelight, sending patterns dancing over their skin. Behind them, Penny and Edith strung together branches and felled palm leaves to form a shelter large enough…
The Tale Writes Itself by Lawrence Berry
One of the things I did for fun in 2018 was put together Monstrous Friends, a series of interviews with well-known horror writers. In pursuing an interview with Stephen Graham Jones on writing and submitting short stories to current markets, he advised throwing out the first four ideas before carefully weighing the originality of ideas…
An IN THE AIR Excerpt: “Then You May Hear My Whisper: by Brendan Foley
My name was Cornelius Stack, and I have been lost to the wind for over a hundred years. Or so I think. I suppose I was once like you. I can remember the feel of skin, of my fingertips as they brushed against pieces of paper, played against the bark of a tree. I can…
An IN THE AIR Excerpt: “Abra” by Lawrence Berry
Abra slips out a doorway webbed with shadows and walks down Ninth Street, kicking at rain-dimpled puddles of water, the air around him roaring with the steady cadence of the rainstorm. Street lamps gleam above the worn cement like demon’s eyes, seeming to bend and examine Abra’s soul. Twilight is an hour away, but an…
An IN THE AIR Excerpt: “Aeolian Variations” by Robert Walton
We stepped onto his apartment’s balcony. Like most Upper L.A. apartments, Felix’s balcony had no railings. We admired the unimpeded view for a moment. Then, Felix stepped over the edge. The building was on the job, of course, and instantly provided him with an energy path that looped over to connect to the nearest permanent…
An IN THE AIR Excerpt: “The Fictionals” by Shaun Avery
Not to do so something silly, you understand—I was still mostly loving life, saw no reason to end it. No, just to be wild and reckless and crazy and shave my face in a jacuzzi, just because it was something I’d never done before. But it wasn’t so wise a move, as I got too…
Tim Jeffreys, an IN THE AIR Author Interview
On the verge of a new anthology, we are celebrating IN THE AIR with a behind the scenes view of authors and their stories. Here’s a look at Tim Jeffreys and his story “The Birdman of Bishopsbourne.” ABOUT THE STORY Tell me a little about your story and the world you’ve created. The story is…
An IN THE AIR Excerpt: “The Treasure of the Wind-Walker” by Bryan Dyke
The sea around him turned choppy. The palm trees convulsed. The shallows blossomed with odd waterspouts and turbulence. Even closer, an unnatural twister formed across the beach dunes and rushed toward him and his claim, the air charged and alive. Within the tumult, the outline of a human figure formed: tall and muscled, garbed with a…
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