Exercising imagination. Provoking thought. Reforming reality.
Exercising imagination. Provoking thought. Reforming reality.
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven…”
With these words, the writer of Ecclesiastes launches into his famous list of twenty-eight “times”, a poem that explores the breadth of humanity’s relationship with life, death, and God.
This collection explores these statements of the times of life through a speculative fiction lens, using science fiction and fantasy to do what these genres do best: ask “what if?” and “why?” And in keeping with the ancient writer’s use of the phrase “a time to . . .”, each story explores these times of life with an imaginative manipulation of time.
Can a simple prayer break the bounds of time?
Out of this simple question comes a truly strange story…a tale I like to describe as a cross between This Present Darkness, The Terminator, and It’s a Wonderful Life—with a dash of Loki.
Teased with the possibility of saving the woman he loves from beyond the grave, Patrick Locke is drawn to a mysterious lighthouse. The door is locked, but just before losing hope, he finds the key to open it already in his pocket.
Now, he must journey deeper into the lighthouse—a paranormal dreamscape where every door is locked, and every lock matches a key on his ring, and every key is tied to a memory.
Unraveling more and more with each step, Locke is trapped with no way out. And the key he’ll need to escape…
…is the one key he doesn’t have.
This six-chapter novelette is a supernatural tale of spiritual transformation perfect for fans of James L. Rubart and Ted Dekker.
