I let impatience get the better of me. It’s what I always did. I slurped the last drop of water as the scorching hot sun burned my already blistered skin. I wasn’t sure how much longer I could last exposed in the never-ending sand dunes. Each one bled together. My eyes had begun to fail […]
Science Fiction
Literature That Stopped Time When a Time-traveler Meets His Favorite Writers
The Holodeck, a Tardis, a dream, or just my mind. However I got there, it just happened. Back and forth, to and fro. The greatest authors, at least in my mind. There they were, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle among them. “My Dear Watson. How do you do?” he asked, pipe in mouth and donning a […]
Hearts of Yesterday
A Time Travel Romance Short Over the past few weeks, Rita’s days, nights, and dreams blurred until they were indistinguishable. The typewriter punished her fingers as she hammered its oversized keys. Her eyelids grew heavy, but she held them open, grateful for the work yet longing to return to her modest but comfortable London flat. […]
The Knob
I pushed my bed ‘til it rested against the entrance. These were humid nights, and the only relief from the suffocating shroud of moisture and heat was the bit of breeze that seeped through the cracks of my door.