Marty A. Johnson

Stories about broken timelines, improbable choices, cats, cacti, and the people who keep going anyway.

Welcome to My Timeline

I write stories about ordinary people who find themselves in decidedly unordinary situations—broken timelines, impossible choices, psychic hamsters, shouting cacti, racehorses we barely own, and the occasional forbidden kitchen appliance.

Some of it is science fiction. Some of it is fantasy. Some of it is true. And some of it started out true and wandered off when nobody was paying attention.

This is where I’ll share my stories, talk about writing, and occasionally try to make sense of whatever timeline we happen to be in.

Keep going.

The Lost Timelines

Somewhere out there, another version of you made the other choice.

The Lost Timelines are short stories from the strange, slightly damaged universe of Commander Needles and the Blender of Fate—alternate possibilities, side roads, and little adventures that may have happened somewhere along the way.

You don’t need to have read the novel to understand them. In fact, you can’t. I haven’t finished it yet.

From the Blog

Notes on writing, books, life, and whatever else seems important in this particular timeline.

• The Lost Timelines Are Now a Series
• Coming This Christmas to a Kindle Near You
• I’M NOT ASKING PERMISSION ANYMORE