Lives Out of Time: A diverse selection of short stories

A collection of 15 short stories where ordinary lives slip into strange, unsettling, and unforgettable places.

Inside these pages:
* One complaint. One furious manager. Three difficult customers sealed inside a supermarket on Christmas Eve with no idea what awaits them.

* A grieving woman discovers a doorway back to the man she lost, but crossing the boundary between worlds may cost more than she ever imagined.

* For millennia, a lost city has slept beneath the Amazon, swallowed by jungle, myth, and time, until a family torn from its ancient streets escapes into the present.

* A man dreams of a woman he has never met. The dream answers him, and he realises she may be dreaming of him too.

* In a frozen, overgrown London long after humanity has vanished, one woman walks through the ruins, searching the silence for any sign that she is not alone.

In Lives Out of Time, dark comedy, romance, grief, mystery, and speculative unease come together in stories where the familiar slips sideways into the extraordinary. Love lingers where it should have ended; places remember what people forget; and loneliness, loss, and hope can change the shape of reality itself.

Some mysteries ask to be solved. Others ask to be left alone.