Writing Is Cheaper Than Therapy by Ken Goldman

Enjoy an exclusive guest post from Ken Goldman, author of “The Last Days Of Leonard Cross,” featured in our upcoming anthology ON TIME.   Hello, Transmundaners. I’m Ken Goldman, a former English and Film Studies teacher. I used to teach a course on Horror in Film & Literature, and it was pretty popular at Washington High…

The Ravages of Time by Benjamin Blake

Enjoy an exclusive guest post from Benjamin Blake author of “Something In The Way,” featured in our upcoming anthology ON TIME.   Time is a strange thing. It’s not linear. Nowhere close. It can accelerate or decelerate—depending on one’s surroundings. It can stop. And start. And stop again. And each particular period of our lives…

How “Popcorn” Came to Be by Michael J Moore

Enjoy an exclusive guest post from Michael J Moore author of “Popcorn,” featured in our upcoming anthology ON TIME.   My wife’s name is Katherine. She goes by Cait. I call her Kitten. She’s not too keen on getting pretty things because she already has plenty. Cait prefers the type of gifts that are wrapped…

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…

Victor Hawk, an ON TIME Author Interview

Join us as we peek behind the scenes of our upcoming anthology, ON TIME. Learn more about Victor Hawk in his featured interview.   ABOUT THE STORY What inspired “The Hot Season”?  I wrote a story in my first workshop in 2006. It was called “Valentine’s Moody Henderson.” It had a lot of problems as…

IN THE AIR Story Inspirations by Daniel M. Kimmel

After a long career writing non-fiction, journalism, and film criticism (the latter of which I still do), I started to have some luck writing fiction.  One of the mysteries that continues to fascinate me is the spark that inspires the creation of a resulting story.  It can be all sorts of things. In the case…

History of Treasure of the Wind-Walker and Back Story by Bryan Dyke

A few years ago, I was trying to come up with story ideas that would fit into a good sword and sorcery setting. I wanted to world-build my very own Hyboria, Narnia, or Tolkien-esque Middle Earth. I mostly wanted a sandbox in which to play, to write material I would have wanted to read, and…

Thoughts behind “Easy as the Wind” by Bill Davidson

My story, “Easy as the Wind,” is a fiction set in the near future, imagining how devastating a relatively simple alteration to our weather could be. In this case, it is a prolonged period of very high wind, with no end in sight. I didn’t explicitly state that this was the result of climate change,…

The Demons in Our Lives by Gargi Mehra

Three years ago, I returned from a badminton match coughing and sputtering like an old man on his deathbed. A severe cough had taken hold of me and wracked my body. I spent the whole day in intense discomfort. Home remedies like steaming and lemon-honey-ginger barely alleviated symptoms. The following week I visited the doctor…

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…