Portals Author:Patricia Bray (Editor), S. C. Butler (Editor) PORTALS: What mysteries…or horrors…await you on the other side? The lure of an open doorway is hard to resist. What lies beyond? Where will it take you, and how will you be transformed? Will it lead to paradise…or a living hell? You’ll never know, unless you have the courage to take that first step.... more »
In this anthology you will find sixteen stories of portals to exotic destinations, whether it’s a doorway in the desert that appears out of thin air, a fairy ring of mushrooms in the backyard, a crack in the road, or a train headed straight to Hell. Science fiction and fantasy authors invite you to step through a host of doorways to other realities with infinite possibilities, some horrible, some comic, and some just plain weird. So take my hand, but not too tight, and let’s journey into another world. The door is open. The portal awaits.
Contents:
Introduction (Portals) • essay by Joshua Palmatier
What Time Is It? / short story by Nancy Holzner
This Way Out / short story by Esther M. Friesner
Deus Ex Machina / short story by Ian Tregillis
A Land Fit for Heroes / short fiction by Jacey Bedford
Iron and Anthacite / short story by John Linwood Grant
The Namesake / short story by Kate Hall
Portal Pirates / short story by Gini Koch [as by Anita Ensil]
Doorways in the Sand / short story by Violette Malan
Somewhere Else, Nowhere Else / short story by Julie Kemp
A Stranger Comes to Town / novelette by James Enge
Brick and Mirror / short story by Steven Piziks [as by Steven Harper]
A Bend in the Air / novelette by F. Brett Cox
All the Lost Places / short story by Jaime Lee Moyer
Onward to Glory! / novelette by Jason Palmatier
Hard Times in the Vancouver Continuum / short story by Andrija Popovic
The Cracks in the Road / short story by Patrick Hurley