If you love short story collections like What Remains of Edith Finch, Attrib. and Other Stories, and Idiot Pride, or stories about music like Mix Tape, Phonogram or Sushi Central, or stories about identity like If Found, Invisible Boys, or Looking for Alibrandi, or just teens being teens like Life is Strange, then this book collection is for you!

Absolutely no AI was used in creating these works.

From the creative mind behind beloved Melbourne theatre shows The Play About Nothing, A Fire The Fire and Less Than <3 Three Because I Heart U, and a myriad of short stories that push both form and function, comes a new non-linear, multi-timeline, abstract narrative Sci-Fi story set in the heart of the Australian city.

 
The Time Paradox series is a love letter to the emo and alt scene of the 2000s, mixed with a dystopian future and a punk music scene, and a morbid fascination with both death and time. Intertwining a total of 20 books with a story spanning 160 years and two distinct timelines, the Time Paradox series is unlike anything you've read before.

It's about an anxious ADHDer called Dean and his Italian-Aussie boyfriend Stephan. It's about Dean's genius sister Maddy and his boy-next-door best friend Brent. It's about all their dumbass mates and the stupid things they get up to.

It’s about music and weird Aussie books and sex and drugs and being a stupid boy making bad choices in the late 2000s.

It’s also about time travel and genetics and quantum mechanics. It’s about war and capitalism, and death and mental illness. It's about immigration and religious trauma, about being different and finding yourself and making your own family.

And being a stupid boy making bad choices in 2141.

And being a stupid girl making bad choices in 2160.

But mostly, it’s about growing up.

What's a prelude?
A prelude is to music is as a prologue is to the written word. This series is about time and music, music cannot exist without time, and time holds its own unique beat. The entire series has been divided into the musical expressions within a fugue.

These three books are concurrent stories that intermingle, crossover and intertwine. Taking place over the same period of time, 2000 - 2011, the fullness of the story unfolds as more of the story is read. Told from five different perspectives and through three different narrative forms with multiple POVs of the same scenes, follow the lives of Dean, Stephan, Maddy, Brent and Pete as they navigate their teen years as queer kids and allies in Australia.

Spiritually the first book in the series, Shit That Happened Before 2011 is a collection of shorts that explore, well, some shit that happened before the year 2011. Told through alternating first person POVs, Dean, his sister Maddy, his best friend Brent and his boyfriend Stephan tell you about key moments in their lives as they journey from their teens to young adulthood.

Explored over 27 vignettes told by the four narrators, you are the audience. These stories are being recounted to you, specifically. Maybe you're a friend, maybe you're the person they talk to in their head, but these stories are just for you.

Grouped into triplets with similar names and themes, these stories are snapshots into pivotal moments, but ultimately tell the story of the life of Dean Harris, before everything he's found security in falls apart.

Neon Hearts is Pete's story. Pete grew up in a conservative Jehovahs Witness household and on the morning of his 18th birthday, is kicked out of home. Pete is cut off from his family and has nothing in the world except for five hurridly packed garbage bags of things. Suddenly with nothing, Pete has to learn who he is all over again.

Jumping off from the beginning of the story Formal in Shit That Happened Before 2011, this third person narrative bildungsroman emulates the dissociation one can feel during moments of darkness, but ultimately there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Broken into four parts encompassing one year each, and focusing on a person who impacts Pete’s life the most, follow the ups and downs of a person with depression as they unlearn everything they thought they knew about the world, rebel as far from it as they can, then find an equilibrium.

'Sup fam, it's me, ya old pal Jeb, but you might know me best as jebdarsh. I'm a trans writer from the south east suburbs of Victoria, and I've been crafting this series since 2011.

You've probably heard me talk at PAX Aus about gender, horror, or board game design while having ADHD. Or you may have attended the twice sold out Ice Cream Social Experiment networking event as part of MIGW. Or perhaps seen the 4 star, non-linear production The Play About Nothing that I wrote and produced for the Melbourne Fringe Festival; the sensory split show A Fire The Fire which I wrote, directed and produced; or the show-as-a-live-indie-film Less Than Three Because I Heart You, written, directed and produced by me and performed at the Melbourne Fringe Festival Hub.

A lover of Australian Gothic, all things music, Australian literature of the 90s and 2000s, and the absurdity found in the urbane, these are my first long form stories, and the next step in a well established non-traditional, non-linear narrative style.

Christopher Marcatili began editing in 2014 and created Ellipsis Editing in 2018. With more than ten years of experience, he works with academics and creatives to bring their writing up to the best possible standard. 

This is an extremely low risk campaign. Books are written and edited, covers are done, all we're waiting on is page break graphics and for me to enter hand to hand combat with formatting.

The project is in AUD, because I live down under, which currently equates to ~ $365 US (which isn't much). Even if the Aus economy tanks more than it just has (my biggest risk), we can confidently hit this goal.

If we hit our stretch goal for printed copies I already have FolioFox on board, a Naarm (Melbourne) based printer who are pretty much in a holding pattern for me to send files and say go ahead with printing.

Digital only rewards will go out in AUGUST 2026. CD-Rom copies will go out in SEPTEMBER 2026.

Prepare for take off! This short story anthology will contain science fiction, dark content, and lots of whumperflies. Authors will be answering the question, "What if there was whump ... but in space?"

Vampire hunting isn’t glamorous. It’s a job. Groundskeepers call in infestations. Corporations handle cleanup. 

And Alex Priest? They’re just trying to get through another shift at LC&B (Living Corpses & Bite).

Then everything goes sideways. A corporate merger with DEAD LLC forces Alex into a partnership with the one person they absolutely don’t want to see again - their ex-girlfriend, Janelle Garcia, the country’s leading magical analyst.

They haven’t spoken in five years. Now they have to work together to stop an apocalypse. And this time? The vampires aren’t playing by the rules.

Aloe is Book 2 in the Tales From The Night Garden series, an LGBTQIA+ contemporary dark fantasy following two ace-spectrum, nonbinary leads. Acanthus and Cypress are back, and they're fighting Nekane with everything they've got.