The Slipstream Halt
*This one came out darker than I expected.
Time slip sci-fi & fantasy stories
Stories in Sci-Fi & Fantasy tagged time slip, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 22 to 28 minutes. Writers to know: Quill of Gold, Sundown Wanderer and Quiet Post. Readers usually start with “The Slipstream Halt” and “The Time-Slip Waitress”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Time slip sci-fi & fantasy stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Time-Slip Waitress
The clock above the pie case says 11:47.
03 The Eclipse Shift
Ella was thirty-four years old and she had been divorced for two years, and she had learned that the best way to get through the weeks was…
04 Time Enough for Us
Three years ago I met a man at a coffee conference.
05 The Spiteful Orbit
I'm Tyra Harlow, twenty-four, and I stack grocery store bargains like most people stack receipts.
06 The Deadline Loop
Karl Wilkes was thirty-six years old and bored out of his skull.
07 The Slow Hours
The sun has been sitting at the same angle for three hours now.
08 The Missing Key
The sleet started an hour out of Reykjavik and never let up.
09 The Hour-Shift at Fort Sweeney
The way I heard it from the transport driver, the anomaly at Fort Sweeney was a big deal when it was found back in the eighties.
10 Cleaning the Wrong Hour
I took the night cleaning job because my son moved out in September and the house got too quiet.