An ON TIME Excerpt: “Coincidence and Correspondence” by Phillip T. Stephens

Enjoy an excerpt from Phillip T. Stephens’ “Coincidence and Correspondence” featured in our new anthology ON TIME. I scrambled across our lawn, from waterfront to back porch, certain divine punishment would fall. Not fueled by God’s wrath but my father’s, his hand swift and unrelenting until my backside burned, and I repented seven times, seven times,…

An ON TIME Excerpt: “Aim’s True” by Phillip T. Stephens

Enjoy an excerpt from Phillip T. Stephens’s “Aim’s True,” featured in our upcoming anthology ON TIME.

Phillip T. Stephens, an ON TIME Author Interview

Join us as we peek behind the scenes of our upcoming anthology, ON TIME. Learn more about Phillip T. Stephens in his featured interview.   ABOUT THE STORIES What inspired your story? I first wrote Coincidence and Correspondence as my annual monologue for the Texas Liars Contests (a series held at different cities throughout the…

Giving Your Story Roots by Phillip T. Stephens

Enjoy an exclusive guest post from Phillip T. Stephens, author of “Aims True” and “Coincidence and Correspondence,” featured in our upcoming anthology ON TIME.   Using metaphors and motifs to nourish your prose My college writing teachers treated metaphors as useful decorations for writing.  My philosophy teachers called them “poetry and nonsense.” In the forty years…