"Time Was"
James Wiley

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing
things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world
outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring
tyrant of all that is. - Bertrand Russell



TIME WAS opens with a very young Stephen Diehl meeting the old crone Marie Cotter for the first time, a fateful encounter in
which a young boy's fear of the old woman and her sister was
confirmed. A few brief years later, only slightly more
sophisticated and braver, he encounters the old women again and
learns they are far more bizarre than a young boy imagined. It is
possible anyone could be as old as the women claimed to be, as
full of brooding old histories of witchery and murder? Or could
anyone be as lovely as the young Marie Cotter Stephen "met," or
was that more witchcraft and hallucination? Over time and
distances Stephen follows Marie, hoping to rescue her from her
fated life, while hoping not to lose his own.

pgs. 159
Word count - 63,400

Review of "Time Was":

Time Was -- by James Ross Wiley
ISBN 0-9700930-6-3
Published by Atlantic Bridge Publishing

Review by Lee Smith

Tired of formula novels? Try a headlong leap into the rushing
tumbling brook which is James Ross Wiley's latest novella, Time
Was.

Young Stephen Diehl, still in high school, snow shovel in hand,
knocks on the door to one of those old Victorian mansions with
the view toward making a dollar for a half-hour's shoveling work
and meets the love of his life.

An ancient crone comes to the door, blue knotted veins showing
through parchment skin. She knows him, has always known him, and invites him in, and after a moment's hesitation he enters.

Inside, even the air smells of ages. Young Stephen drinks the
warm concoction he is offered and falls asleep and she comes to
him. Who? His lover. The one he has always loved, who always
was, and perhaps will always be.

Read it.

Lee Smith, http:www.darkstormy.com/lee/index.htm   author of several novels and many short stories oversees the cast of writers at his website, DarkStormy.com, several of whom are not only published individually but are also included in the recently published anthology, _Three Naked Ladies Playing Cellos_.

Lee Smith, a writer's Eric Hoffer, worked in shipbuilding and
building construction for 18 years, taught high-school, and
community college for 25 years. He has a Masters degree in
vocational education and an Associate degree in Applied Science
and Technology. He has authored four books for Delmar Publishers, Albany New York, and four computer programs for Ebsco Curriculum Development, Birmingham AL. In addition he has edited a half-dozen or so newsletters, written a newspaper column, and published stories.

About the Author:

Jim Wiley is a writer with eclectic tastes and philosophies,
evidenced by TIME WAS. A short story version of TIME WAS
originally appeared in serialized version in The Cimmerian
Journal in 1995, with a short story based on this published in
the literary collection THREE NAKED LADIES, published earlier in
this year.

Other tales based young Stephen's ventures into other worlds - of
ghosts and existences in other times - have appeared in ELF:
ECLECTIC LITERARY FORUM.

Wiley writes from his home, "Ravine View," in Akron, Ohio, aided
by his crew of cats, dogs and other literary critics and
contributors.

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