Enjoy an excerpt from Chris Stanley’s “Delicate Equilibrium” featured in our newest anthology ON TIME. Thomas ends the call and smiles. He can’t help it. The walls of his study are decorated with certificates of academic achievement, but he doesn’t need to pretend any longer. He’s finished with social sciences and all the meagre, hard-fought gains….
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An ON TIME Excerpt: “Pocket Watch Problems” by Allison Rott
Enjoy an excerpt from Allison Rott’s “Pocket Watch Problems” featured in our newest anthology ON TIME. Late. Late Late. The bus was pulling away, shouting didn’t change the course of the bus. Heels clacked on the sidewalk, cold hands pulled the patched coat tighter, chilled fingertips brushed against the rough papers, payment, a future meal or…
Allison Rott, an ON TIME Author Interview
Join us as we peek behind the scenes of our upcoming anthology, ON TIME. Learn more about Allison Rott in her featured interview. ABOUT THE STORY What inspired your story? The bare bones of the story started as a submission to a call for Halloween stories, the stories to be linked by “The Dealer.”…
Throwback Thursday | A DISTORTED Excerpt: “Your Name is Leda” by Catherine Edmunds
You’ve always been afraid of tunnels, turnings where you can’t see what’s round the bend—it might be a man with a flame thrower, or it might be Swanny Fred from Mr. Robertson’s class; Swanny Fred who throws chalk at you and lifts your skirt, and you hate him, especially today when the boys have dared…
A TRANSCENDENT Excerpt: “Returnal” by Connor Phillips
The dreams, when they do come, are full of their faces, waiting and watching at the edge of the woods. You can hear the sneaking mutter of their schemes to trick you and trap you back into their blame. You don’t feel afraid though, just buried in anger. You spit and seethe, you belch and…
A TRANSCENDENT Excerpt: “I Dream of Desiree” by Rohit Sawant
I looked around the empty ice-rink. Even then, I knew I was in some intra-cranial world and that my eyes were bouncing from side to side under my lids, like an organic metronome keeping dream time. My only company the diffused reflection glued to my boots as I walked gingerly, and I read shapes in…
A TRANSCENDENT Excerpt: “Frontoviki” by Sam Kepfield
This may be my last time around. I hope so. There aren’t many of us left; another go-around or two, and we’ll all be gone and glad of it. The first couple of times, it felt almost real. The brass on uniforms still sparkled, and the bodies in them, well, you’d never have known. But…
The Power to Change Dreams by Abra Staffin-Wiebe
I remember the first time I dreamed lucidly. This is one of my earliest memories. I was really young, probably five years old or so. There was an alligator, you see, and it wanted to eat my feet. I woke up screaming, leaped out of bed (jumping far enough that the alligator couldn’t get me…
The Terrors in Our Own Minds by Kacie Berghoef
You wake up screaming. Your hands are shaking, and you’re gasping for breath. Beads of sweat drip down your face. You look around, and all you can see is shadows of hands and bedroom furniture within routine night darkness. What on earth just happened? You probably had a night terror. As the NHS reports, night…
Our TRANSCENDENT Authors: a Featured Interview with Kate Morgan
In our new author series, we’ll be offering a clairvoyant peek behind the veil of who and what makes up TRANSCENDENT. Here’s a glimpse at Kate Morgan and her story “Butterflies Eating the Dead.” ABOUT THE STORY What inspired your story? A writer friend posted a photo of gorgeous monarch butterflies covering a piece of…
Nightmares and Story Grains by Irina Slav
If someone asked me what my worst nightmare was, they’d have to pack a lunch and a lot of coffee because I can talk about my nightmares for hours. And hours. And hours. I don’t mean nightmares in the sense of “What’s the worst thing you can imagine happening to you?” That one’s easy—it’s easy…
Precognitive and Recurring Dreams by Linda G. Hill
Don’t you just love those wonderful dreams that make you wish you could go back to sleep and continue? You’ve found the love of your life, or you’re in the best place, having the most fun you’ve ever had. You wake up to the alarm and think, “Noooo. Why now?” So you hit the snooze button…
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