I don't consider myself a wish-fulfillment writer but once in a blue moon, I'll realize I've written something that I want badly for myself. That happened with "Next Door," a story about loss and childhood and interdimensional portals and the need to let go of the past.
Or, more plainly: it's about a woman who has lost every member of her family and now has the opportunity to see them again by stepping back into certain moments of the past. Who wouldn't want that, right? If you could time travel (and couldn't change the past but only witness it), would you zap back to Pompeii or a Viking voyage or the Gilded Age - or would you revisit some of the most poignant moments of your life?
"Next Door" is included in a new anthology called Time After Time - on sale next week!
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