“TIME BEING” COMING SOON ON THIS SITE

My serialized story Time Being was originally published on the now-defunct Kindle Vella. It was a fun project and as I reread it, I see how I can fit it in as a freebee for my esteemed blog readers. The plan is to post a chapter each week on this blogsite, then archive the complete collection on my new “Stories” page. There are 15 chapters in all.

 

A part flight-of-fancy, part drama, part timey-wimey fantasy.

A plot that evolves from episode to episode.

An arc to tie it together.

 

Sylvan Dale, an elderly woman…

goes back in time…

to confront her past…

to change her past…

To change her past and her future.

Her companions are Aron—is he an angel or an alien?—and Brie, a magical cat from Sylvan’s past.

 

1952-That time when Sylvan witnesses her own amazing birth.

2021-That time when she is paralyzed by stroke.

1968-That time when she protests the Kent State shootings.

2000-A new century.

1961-That time when she wakes up in her childhood home.

2030-That time when she sees a future that cannot be explained.

 

An old woman trapped in an unconscious state finds herself traveling through time to significant points in her life, but things are not the same as she remembers them. Past and future become mailable, hers to mold, but how can she know where her time-sculpting may lead? Accompanied by a handsome young stranger and her childhood cat, she picks her way among the visions, hoping the choices she makes will be the right ones.

What memories do you think about? What do you wish you could change? How about the future—what do you see there, or would you rather be surprised? Take Sylvan’s journey and see if you would make the same choices.