An ON TIME Excerpt: “Time Will Tell” by Justin Alcala

Enjoy an excerpt from Justin Alcala’s “Time Will Tell” featured in our new anthology ON TIME. Tammy pointed to the digital clock illuminated near the kitchen entrance.  The woman on screen mentioned time just as he glanced at the timepiece.  It was nearly nine.  “We project that in ten years,” the woman on the television stared stone-faced at…

An ON TIME Excerpt: “Per Aquas Ad Astra” by KA Masters

Enjoy an excerpt from KA Masters’s “Per Aquas Ad Astra” featured in our new anthology ON TIME.

The Layover by Andrea L. Staum

Enjoy an exclusive guest post from Andrea L. Staum, author of “The Time Between,” featured in our upcoming anthology ON TIME.   Julian leaned against his backpack and adjusted his earphone. He had hours of audio plays loaded onto his phone and with the weather delay he was going to get through most of them. He…

Fourth Dimension by DJ Tyrer

Enjoy an exclusive guest post from DJ Tyrer, author of “Out of Time” and “Time is Relative,” featured in our upcoming anthology ON TIME.     Time was a blurred motion about him, a swirl of possibilities in a wild rush of potentiality. Everything. Nothing. The sensation was a rush, seductive, the subtle ebb at the…

Throwback Thursday | An UNDERWATER Excerpt: “The Rock Cave” by Angela R. Sargenti

I dive deeper than normal because the reef is so pretty. Fish of all colors swim around me—blue, green, and yellow. I spy an opening in the rock beneath the coral. My curiosity gets the better of me. As I get closer, I see that it’s big enough to swim through, so I do. When…

Throwback Thursday | An ON FIRE Excerpt: “Setting Fire to Water” by Phoebe Tsang

The end came faster than he could have hoped. Coyote, twenty-nine and balding since seventeen, who could be seen each morning at his company’s office building through the tinted windows of the fourth-floor gym, a ghost with fluorescent aura slowly erased by encroaching daybreak; who hadn’t taken a vacation since joining this above-average, medium-to-large corporation…

Throwback Thursday | An AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER Excerpt: “Company at Last” by Brian H. Seitzman

Mr. Krimbret was a man of his word. Etta picked her head up when the phone rang minutes past 10:00 AM. Krimbret had arrived at the Odalin manse and gone over the items bequeathed to her. He was ready with his bid. “I can give you $6,500 for the lot,” Krimbret said, “I’m not interested…

Throwback Thursday | An ON FIRE Excerpt: “The Dancing Lilly” by Anthony S. Buoni

The neon lights lit the cobblestones underneath the Flat Five’s awning, casting a surreal blue haze over the club’s entrance. Muted jazz poured onto the streets as I passed a dirty dachshund panhandling for change or leftovers. The snake at the door, Nick, stopped me on my way in and motioned at the duffel bag…

Throwback Thursday | An AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER Excerpt: “Tinkerhell” by Michael Seese

The river. I needed to get to the river. The river would carry me away from here, away from them, away from death. I struggled, staggered. The sweat streaming down my face clouded my eyes, making it difficult to discern the small details of the terrain below my feet. I tripped and fell, far too often. To…

Throwback Thursday | An UNDERWATER Excerpt: “Sylvia’s Ashes” by Shannon Rose Leahy

He stood on the shore, the full moon’s light shattering into pearl fragments on the ocean’s black face. Sylvia, his darling wife—where in the vast waters had her ashes drifted? Three years had passed since the small and huddled service at the end of the rickety pier, a tinny rendition of “The Saints Go Marching…

Throwback Thursday | An ON FIRE Excerpt: “Chrysopoeia” by Megan Dorei

At 9:09 a.m., the lab exploded. Ayden had been monitored so closely for so long that she kept track of the clock. She allowed herself one final glimpse of it before she destroyed everything. For nostalgia’s sake. The morning was mild aside from the blazing rubble, the sky silk and lavender, the sun a vague…

Throwback Thursday | An AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER Excerpt: “Need to be Apart” by Jody Sollazzo

Don’t forget that AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER is half off for the rest of December to celebrate with Enchanted Quill Press during their Festive Fairytale Celebration! Enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card and check out all of the books and authors who made the giveaway possible.   And now, for our regularly…