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Time Corridor: Whisper Project
Time Whisper Project
is a Pitman Writers' Guild Anthology containing eight authors’ works. Each piece features a character from another, and these arcs are explored in the past, present, and future. The collection embraces the uncanny, with tales of magical realism, science fiction, and tragedy creating a literary landscape in which the reader may reflect on the boundaries between reality and perception, as well as the impact of cultural and temporal contexts on decisions, beliefs, and experiences.
185 pages, Paperback
Published November 6, 2024
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March 6, 2025This is a collection of short stories written by eight different authors that connect tenuously or otherwise to one another. It isn’t meant to be a novel of short stories in the way Olive Kitteridge. Each attaches itself, at least a little, to a character in another story from the connection, but the web isn’t intended to create some larger whole necessarily.
Love Beyond Feeling D.W. Oravic
Rick was in an accident and spent some time in a medically induced coma. After he recovered, he lost his sense of humanity – unable to appreciate anything but the logical and efficient. The story is really about what this means for his wife who has effectively lost her husband (he is unable to understand or appreciate love or hate or intimacy or humor), but she can’t mourn his loss as she lives side by side with his still-functioning shell. For reasons of his own, he tries to make himself better, even agreeing to see a psychic with her when medical science fails to find anything wrong with him.
Life and Death T.S. DeBrosse
Marcella is on a research submarine with over a hundred crew on board. Things get strange from the start when she eats an unidentified fish and then meets a mysterious Navy-man from Czech Republic named Imrich. Something is strange. Something is off. But what is it exactly, and what is the source? What’s really going on so far under the sea? My favorite bit of this was the Czech proverb.
Brain Box J.D. Marshall
It’s become a classic idea: transferring consciousness to another body, synthetic, robotic. This story focuses on Catalina, a paralytic living in a care facility in the not-so-distant future (where corporations have taken the place government and the free market reigns supreme without oversight) who is given just such an opportunity. But what exactly was Catalina before the accident that left her paralyzed? Why are they handing her a new body and what do they want with her and just how much can she trust Bright Future, the company giving her this opportunity? This one has an awesome Shadowrun feel. Also my new band name is ‘Sepulchral Disco’.
The Cheesecake Jenna Rentzel
This one was good, but felt very out of character with the other stories that had a very sci fi or mystical element. Ashley meets a delightful boy and, right from the get-go, starts spending time with him and his ailing grandmother. She’s a delight and she becomes a part of the family at once. When Grandma dies, she appears at the funeral, rather awkwardly, with a cheesecake in hand. What seems like an odd and charming little story takes an unexpected twist.
Play It Again Mike Shaw
Here, we’ve got a unique take on a Groundhog Day-style time loop filled with action, even if the protagonist isn’t exactly the action-hero type. Of all the stories in the collection, this one gets the very best payout from it’s reference to another story and the ending was incredibly satisfying to me.
It Tolls For Thee Jason James
Like the stories that feel like outliers in this book, The Cheesecake and Broken Big Sky, this one focuses on a kind of sentimentality and loss, but this one fits the collection a little more thematically. There’s a disease called The Knell (or The Death Knell) and once you contract it, you’re at your halfway point (a six year old will die at twelve, our twenty-two year old protagonist only has until forty-four). How does your life change knowing you have an expiration date? How do our relationships and our feelings alter with a date certain looming over us?
Broken Big Sky Jaquelyn Tiger-Williams
This is an emotion tale of abuse and fear from the perspective of a young boy. It’s heartbreaking, though brief. Tiger-Williams gets us into the mind and the heart of Hugo and does a great job of connecting the storms of the household to the storms of its setting. It’s absolutely the kind of thing I look for in writing (man, I’m a sucker for the sad stuff), but there is nothing supernatural or futuristic here and I have to wonder if it feels out of place among some of these others.
Maybe the Muses Kara Knauss
The book ends with a short poem about the interconnectivity inherent in story-telling. Or, I think that’s what it’s about. I’m so bad at reading poetry, it’s probably a good thing that I got out of teaching English as quickly as I did. I do love anything evocative of the Ancient Greeks, though, so I love an evocation of the muses – though I wonder if it’s more appropriate at the start of an epic than at its end.
Love Beyond Feeling D.W. Oravic
Rick was in an accident and spent some time in a medically induced coma. After he recovered, he lost his sense of humanity – unable to appreciate anything but the logical and efficient. The story is really about what this means for his wife who has effectively lost her husband (he is unable to understand or appreciate love or hate or intimacy or humor), but she can’t mourn his loss as she lives side by side with his still-functioning shell. For reasons of his own, he tries to make himself better, even agreeing to see a psychic with her when medical science fails to find anything wrong with him.
Life and Death T.S. DeBrosse
Marcella is on a research submarine with over a hundred crew on board. Things get strange from the start when she eats an unidentified fish and then meets a mysterious Navy-man from Czech Republic named Imrich. Something is strange. Something is off. But what is it exactly, and what is the source? What’s really going on so far under the sea? My favorite bit of this was the Czech proverb.
Brain Box J.D. Marshall
It’s become a classic idea: transferring consciousness to another body, synthetic, robotic. This story focuses on Catalina, a paralytic living in a care facility in the not-so-distant future (where corporations have taken the place government and the free market reigns supreme without oversight) who is given just such an opportunity. But what exactly was Catalina before the accident that left her paralyzed? Why are they handing her a new body and what do they want with her and just how much can she trust Bright Future, the company giving her this opportunity? This one has an awesome Shadowrun feel. Also my new band name is ‘Sepulchral Disco’.
The Cheesecake Jenna Rentzel
This one was good, but felt very out of character with the other stories that had a very sci fi or mystical element. Ashley meets a delightful boy and, right from the get-go, starts spending time with him and his ailing grandmother. She’s a delight and she becomes a part of the family at once. When Grandma dies, she appears at the funeral, rather awkwardly, with a cheesecake in hand. What seems like an odd and charming little story takes an unexpected twist.
Play It Again Mike Shaw
Here, we’ve got a unique take on a Groundhog Day-style time loop filled with action, even if the protagonist isn’t exactly the action-hero type. Of all the stories in the collection, this one gets the very best payout from it’s reference to another story and the ending was incredibly satisfying to me.
It Tolls For Thee Jason James
Like the stories that feel like outliers in this book, The Cheesecake and Broken Big Sky, this one focuses on a kind of sentimentality and loss, but this one fits the collection a little more thematically. There’s a disease called The Knell (or The Death Knell) and once you contract it, you’re at your halfway point (a six year old will die at twelve, our twenty-two year old protagonist only has until forty-four). How does your life change knowing you have an expiration date? How do our relationships and our feelings alter with a date certain looming over us?
Broken Big Sky Jaquelyn Tiger-Williams
This is an emotion tale of abuse and fear from the perspective of a young boy. It’s heartbreaking, though brief. Tiger-Williams gets us into the mind and the heart of Hugo and does a great job of connecting the storms of the household to the storms of its setting. It’s absolutely the kind of thing I look for in writing (man, I’m a sucker for the sad stuff), but there is nothing supernatural or futuristic here and I have to wonder if it feels out of place among some of these others.
Maybe the Muses Kara Knauss
The book ends with a short poem about the interconnectivity inherent in story-telling. Or, I think that’s what it’s about. I’m so bad at reading poetry, it’s probably a good thing that I got out of teaching English as quickly as I did. I do love anything evocative of the Ancient Greeks, though, so I love an evocation of the muses – though I wonder if it’s more appropriate at the start of an epic than at its end.
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