Clocks

by Elizabeth Elle Mitchell, Madi Haab, Mia Dalia

Seventeen emerging and established authors from around the world reimagined clocks and wove them into beautiful speculative and dark stories.

As you move from one narrative to the next, you'll find yourself lost in fog, grasping at a young love, risking it all to save a dying world. Pages will swallow you whole as you slip through time, challenge what it means to live, and create an automaton. With poignant representations of queerness, disability and mental health issues, grief, love, and acceptance, Clocks is an anthology as lush and emotional as it is unique.

Stories Chantell Saunders, Charlotte Van Ryswyk, Courtney Raines, Elizabeth Jaffari, Erin Hall, J.S. Mercer, James Carraghan, Katherine Quevedo, Katrina Jax, Madi Haab, Mia Dalia, Niyyah Ruscher-Haqq, Raymond Brunell, Reign Reeves Pearson, Rose Wilde Hall, Sarah Walker, and Susan E. Rogers / Front cover and interior illustrations Elizabeth Jaffari / Back cover illustrations Chantell Saunders / Edited Elizabeth Mitchell

Genres: Speculative Fiction

308 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 23, 2026

About the author

Elizabeth Mitchell is a disabled author, multidisciplinary artist, and publisher who's lived many lives. Her work challenges, blends genres, explores haunted bodies, and delves into the human psyche. She's a social activist, a gamer with potato aim, and an avid reader. As a woman with several invisible illnesses, she enjoys living a semi-horizontal life with her husband and spoiled furbutts in the PNW. Her writing is also under Elle. Find her at https://www.justanotherelizabeth.com/.

Reviews

[Tony Ciak · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great weird, horror, short stories; all stories are clock related or themed or even the antagonist; wonderful creative minds have produced a delightful tome. Loved it!!!

[Madi Haab · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full disclosure that I have a story in this anthology, so I’m obviously biased, but I’m proud to say my “Wind-up Heart” is in excellent company here! All the authors were new to me, so I was excited to properly dive into their stories, and I was not disappointed. Clocks runs the gamut from horror to magical realism, and each story proposes a wildly different and imaginative take on the theme of clocks. My personal favourites are Katherine Quevedo’s “Gearheart,” Erin Hall’s “You Can’t Go Home Again,” and Chantell Saunders’s “Chimes at Midnight,” but I was blown away by how high the quality is across the anthology, and how creative all these stories were.

[Dx Lxm · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was so impressed at how this anthology maintained quality across stories! Each one was really strikingly unique. Amazing work.