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.

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 Nancy Holzner, Esther Friesner, Ian Tregillis, Jacey Bedford, John Linwood Grant, Kate Hall, Gini Koch, Violette Malan, Juliet Kemp, James Enge, Steven Harper, F. Brett Cox, Jaime Lee Moyer, Jason Palmatier, Andrija Popovic, and Patrick Hurley 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—not too tight!—and let’s journey into another world. The door is open. The portal awaits.

“What Time Is It” by Nancy Holzner
“This Way Out” by Esther M. Friesner
“Deus Ex Machina” by Ian Tregillis
“A Land Fit for Heroes” by Jacey Bedford
“Iron and Anthracite” by John Linwood Grant
“The Namesake” by Kate Hall
“Portal Pirates” by Gini Koch writing as Anita Ensal
“Doorways in the Sand” by Violette Malan
“Somewhere Else, Nowhere Else” by Juliet Kemp
“A Stranger Comes to Town” by James Enge
“Brick and Mortar” by Steven Harper
“A Bend in the Air” by F. Brett Cox
“All the Lost Places” by Jaime Lee Moyer
“Onward to Glory!” by Jason Palmatier
“Hard Times in the Vancouver Continuum” by Andrija Popovic
“Cracks in the Road” by Patrick Hurley