Mirror Image
Stand in front of a mirror. It can be any kind of a mirror, really–a simple bathroom mirror or an ornate affair in the ball room of some luxury seaside hotel. Pause for a moment, and look at your...
View ArticleThe Night of the Meek
When one thinks of The Twilight Zone, words such as “strange,” “spooky,” and “science fiction” often come to mind–and rightly so. But over the span of its five seasons and 156 episodes, Rod Serling’s...
View ArticleA Passage for Trumpet
We’ve all been there, at one time or another. Everything seems to be going wrong, the world, gray, dark, and bare, as if by some perverse design, conspiring against us and keeping us down. The main...
View Article“Nick of Time”–Or, a Three-Month Holiday Promotion!
In a second-season Twilight Zone episode titled “Nick of Time,” newlyweds Don and Pat Carter, on a honeymoon trip cross country to New York City, are temporarily stranded in the small town of...
View ArticleTo Entertain or to Illuminate, That Is (Not) the Question . . .
On September 22, 1959, on the eve of the premiere of the new television series The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling sat down for an interview with Mike Wallace. Serling, by that time already considered one...
View ArticleNothing in the Dark
It can be anything, really . . . A sense of dread at the thought of standing up in front of a room full of strangers and delivering a speech. A heavy, sickly feeling that grabs on tight and doesn’t...
View ArticleWhat You Need (Or, Hopefully, Want!) to Read–a Cross-Genre, Multi-Author...
In the first-season Twilight Zone episode titled “What You Need,” which aired on Christmas Day 1959, an old peddler named Pedott walks into a drinking establishment, carrying with him his sack of...
View ArticleA Quality of Mercy
Ryan Swinton knows how it feels to be an outsider. In The Singularity Wheel, the sequel to The Eye-Dancers, set to be released later this summer, Ryan is in a major slump. Now seventeen years old, on...
View Article“The Trade-Ins” (On Love)
Mitchell Brant has a problem. Five years have elapsed between the end of The Eye-Dancers and the start of The Singularity Wheel, and numerous life events have taken place in the interim, but for...
View ArticleThe Shelter
Walls. We’ve been hearing a lot about them lately. Concrete walls and steel walls and bollard fences. But walls are not just physical barriers that stand between people or communities or...
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