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Bill Alive
Bill Alive
Writer. Thinker. Goofball.
Apr 24, 2026 3 min read

New Collection! 📚 Memory Loss (And Other Fantasies): Six Haunting Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Stories of memories lost and rediscovered, horrors best forgotten, and searing choices made between fear and love.

Hey! It’s been awhile now since I brought you some short stories. Fair warning, though: some of these stories get fairly intense…

Memory Loss (And Other Fantasies)

Six Haunting Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction

From BILL ALIVE, the celebrated author of TREE MAGIC, comes a stunning new collection: six haunting stories of fantasy and science fiction, each one shining a brilliant, searching light into the dark, endless depths of the mystery of memory.

High schoolers Brittany and Rachel steal a secret, experimental memory-enhancing drug, hoping to ace their Chemistry exam.

Doran, a struggling freelance graphic designer, starts losing time when he should be working, as he stares out his third-floor apartment window at a mysterious old tree. Losing time he forgets even passed.

Ayoka, a princess of the jungle, longs to see the desert, and face the ancient enemies of the sand and caves. Enemies that her people forgot the sight of long ago, yet still fear every night, when darkness falls.

In these and the other luminous stories of this new collection, you'll explore memories lost and rediscovered, horrors best forgotten, and searing choices made between fear and love. Don't miss these enthralling tales from a powerful new voice in short fiction.

🛒 PREORDER NOW: Memory Loss (And Other Fantasies): Six Haunting Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Click that link to preorder this e-book on any major online bookstore.

No paperback edition is available yet.


As with all my recent releases, this book is now up for preorder, but I’m planning a Kickstarter campaign before the official release. That campaign will also include a second collection of all-new fantasy and science fiction short stories from me, which hasn’t even gone up for preorder yet. (And possibly even a third collection too, we’ll see how that goes.)

So if you enjoyed my short fiction in The Punctuality Machine (And Other Tales of Time Dysfunction), or any of the individual SF/F stories that I’ve released separately, like “Commute Killer” or “Birthday Boy”, you may want to keep an eye out for that Kickstarter campaign. You’ll be able to get a whole pile of my SF/F stories in one go, all before they’re officially available.

And if you missed those earlier stories I mentioned, well, they’re just a click away…

The Punctuality Machine

(And Other Tales of Time Dysfunction)

Will time travel save us all?
Ha. These people will be lucky just to survive...

Commute Killer

A Science Fiction Short Story

Teleports are finally on sale...

Birthday Boy

A Time Travel Short Story

What if we'd gotten time travel instead of the Internet?

Thanks again for checking out this new collection! Happy reading!

[Bill Alive]

Bill Alive