Steve Alloway
@ingrediments.bsky.social
Writer, actor, baker, and occasional time traveler.
I got an anthology for Christmas, "Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century." And they're great. But you know what? The stories in the Accidental Time Travelers Collective trilogy are every bit as good as many of them, and in some cases better.
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January 12, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I got an anthology for Christmas, "Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century." And they're great. But you know what? The stories in the Accidental Time Travelers Collective trilogy are every bit as good as many of them, and in some cases better.
#TimeTravelAuthors
#TimeTravelAuthors
At some point, hopefully soon, I'll get back to #TimeTravelAuthors prompts. But in the meantime, I want you all to know, I'm working on a really cool project - a time travel dinner and variety show! If any of you happen to be in L.A. at the end of March, you're totally invited.
January 4, 2026 at 4:27 AM
At some point, hopefully soon, I'll get back to #TimeTravelAuthors prompts. But in the meantime, I want you all to know, I'm working on a really cool project - a time travel dinner and variety show! If any of you happen to be in L.A. at the end of March, you're totally invited.
I wrote a bunch of cool scripts this year and did table reads of two of them - including one I've been wanting to write for over a decade. I also had a short film of mine produced, and I learned and performed a couple of songs that nobody has heard in over 150 years.
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025, no matter how big or small
Reading & writing has kept me alive this year.
Somehow, it’s been my most productive year as an author.
Here’s a guide to what I’ve published in 2025, in case you’ve lost track.
Individual links below but it’s all on itch: danifinn.itch.io
And elsewhere: books2read.com/ap/nAApPp/Da...
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Somehow, it’s been my most productive year as an author.
Here’s a guide to what I’ve published in 2025, in case you’ve lost track.
Individual links below but it’s all on itch: danifinn.itch.io
And elsewhere: books2read.com/ap/nAApPp/Da...
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December 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I wrote a bunch of cool scripts this year and did table reads of two of them - including one I've been wanting to write for over a decade. I also had a short film of mine produced, and I learned and performed a couple of songs that nobody has heard in over 150 years.
Time flies! I can't believe it's December 23rd already! Which means it's time for my favorite December 23rd tradition! Saying, "Merry Christmas Eve Eve, Eve!" to @eveyjacob.bsky.social.
December 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Time flies! I can't believe it's December 23rd already! Which means it's time for my favorite December 23rd tradition! Saying, "Merry Christmas Eve Eve, Eve!" to @eveyjacob.bsky.social.
I tried to tell a joke about the Minotaur, but then I lost the thread...
I have a joke about Medusa, but it's too hard to tell.
I have a joke about Lysistrata but I'm not going to tell it to you until everybody stops fighting.
December 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I tried to tell a joke about the Minotaur, but then I lost the thread...
Seven Year Boots Chapter 2 is now live! See what happens when our hero visits a rock festival in 1969.
No, no... The OTHER rock festival in 1969.
temporamore.substack.com/p/seven-year...
No, no... The OTHER rock festival in 1969.
temporamore.substack.com/p/seven-year...
Seven Year Boots : Chapter 2 - The Concert
In which our hero risks grievous bodily harm in order to rock out to some sweet tunes
temporamore.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Seven Year Boots Chapter 2 is now live! See what happens when our hero visits a rock festival in 1969.
No, no... The OTHER rock festival in 1969.
temporamore.substack.com/p/seven-year...
No, no... The OTHER rock festival in 1969.
temporamore.substack.com/p/seven-year...
'Twas the night before , and so MC knew
He couldn't yet get there with his special shoes
He counted the hours, all snug in his bed
'Til he could skip forward, just seven years ahead.
Seven Year Boots
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He couldn't yet get there with his special shoes
He counted the hours, all snug in his bed
'Til he could skip forward, just seven years ahead.
Seven Year Boots
#TimeTravelAuthors
December 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
'Twas the night before , and so MC knew
He couldn't yet get there with his special shoes
He counted the hours, all snug in his bed
'Til he could skip forward, just seven years ahead.
Seven Year Boots
#TimeTravelAuthors
He couldn't yet get there with his special shoes
He counted the hours, all snug in his bed
'Til he could skip forward, just seven years ahead.
Seven Year Boots
#TimeTravelAuthors
Catching up, Day 25: MC regularly does his shopping a few years to a few decades in the past, when groceries were cheaper and package sizes were bigger. It also lets him get certain products that aren't available anymore. Sometimes you just need a bowl of Heavenly Hash ice cream.
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#TimeTravelAuthors
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Catching up, Day 25: MC regularly does his shopping a few years to a few decades in the past, when groceries were cheaper and package sizes were bigger. It also lets him get certain products that aren't available anymore. Sometimes you just need a bowl of Heavenly Hash ice cream.
#TimeTravelAuthors
#TimeTravelAuthors
To paraphrase Dr. Frankenstein... It's live! It's live!
Chapter 1 of Seven Year Boots is now live and available to read on my Substack. Check it out! And then stay tuned for more!
open.substack.com/pub/temporam...
Chapter 1 of Seven Year Boots is now live and available to read on my Substack. Check it out! And then stay tuned for more!
open.substack.com/pub/temporam...
Seven Year Boots - Chapter 1: The Journey of a Thousand Miles
In which our hero takes a very, very long time to catch a train
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November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
To paraphrase Dr. Frankenstein... It's live! It's live!
Chapter 1 of Seven Year Boots is now live and available to read on my Substack. Check it out! And then stay tuned for more!
open.substack.com/pub/temporam...
Chapter 1 of Seven Year Boots is now live and available to read on my Substack. Check it out! And then stay tuned for more!
open.substack.com/pub/temporam...
Hey, #TimeTravelAuthors! And everyone else! It's finally coming! Seven Year Boots, my serial time travel story, is premiering this Wednesday, 11/26, on Substack. Would love it if you all subscribed, to see it unfold!
temporamore.substack.com
temporamore.substack.com
Tempora More | Steve Alloway | Substack
Stranded in time? Ended up in the wrong year by mistake? Narrowly escaped an impending apocalypse? Tempora More is here to help. Your one-stop shop for all things time travel! Click to read Tempora Mo...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Hey, #TimeTravelAuthors! And everyone else! It's finally coming! Seven Year Boots, my serial time travel story, is premiering this Wednesday, 11/26, on Substack. Would love it if you all subscribed, to see it unfold!
temporamore.substack.com
temporamore.substack.com
Day 23: MC feels like a bit of a turkey at the end of chapter 1, after making a boneheaded mistake. In fact, he makes two boneheaded mistakes, one of which has him inadvertently traveling to Thanksgiving Day, in a random, future year.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Day 23: MC feels like a bit of a turkey at the end of chapter 1, after making a boneheaded mistake. In fact, he makes two boneheaded mistakes, one of which has him inadvertently traveling to Thanksgiving Day, in a random, future year.
#TimeTravelAuthors
#TimeTravelAuthors
Catching up, day 5: "How is there nothing to eat in this entire park? 300,000 people, 100 bathrooms, and not a sandwich to be seen. I wish I'd known. I could have set up a cart or something. A food truck would make a killing here. OK, poor choice of words."
#TimeTravelAuthors
#TimeTravelAuthors
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Catching up, day 5: "How is there nothing to eat in this entire park? 300,000 people, 100 bathrooms, and not a sandwich to be seen. I wish I'd known. I could have set up a cart or something. A food truck would make a killing here. OK, poor choice of words."
#TimeTravelAuthors
#TimeTravelAuthors
Day 3: MC travels forward frequently, even when he's actually trying to travel backward, as transportation in the 23rd century is easier and more convenient than in most other eras. He also does a fair bit of exploration and time tourism.
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#TimeTravelAuthors
November 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Day 3: MC travels forward frequently, even when he's actually trying to travel backward, as transportation in the 23rd century is easier and more convenient than in most other eras. He also does a fair bit of exploration and time tourism.
#TimeTravelAuthors
#TimeTravelAuthors
Switching projects as motivation for my launch goal.
Seven Year Boots is about a man who traverses the timeline in 7-year increments. In so doing, he rescues a woman stranded in the future and uncovers a vast temporal conspiracy. Coming this Thanksgiving! I hope!
#TimeTravelAuthors
Seven Year Boots is about a man who traverses the timeline in 7-year increments. In so doing, he rescues a woman stranded in the future and uncovers a vast temporal conspiracy. Coming this Thanksgiving! I hope!
#TimeTravelAuthors
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Switching projects as motivation for my launch goal.
Seven Year Boots is about a man who traverses the timeline in 7-year increments. In so doing, he rescues a woman stranded in the future and uncovers a vast temporal conspiracy. Coming this Thanksgiving! I hope!
#TimeTravelAuthors
Seven Year Boots is about a man who traverses the timeline in 7-year increments. In so doing, he rescues a woman stranded in the future and uncovers a vast temporal conspiracy. Coming this Thanksgiving! I hope!
#TimeTravelAuthors
A few months ago, I started work on a serial fiction story, which then fell by the wayside. The first installment has a very narrow window in which it can be published, and it's rapidly approaching. So my current writing goal is to be ready to launch by the end of the month. I'm nervous, but excited
November 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A few months ago, I started work on a serial fiction story, which then fell by the wayside. The first installment has a very narrow window in which it can be published, and it's rapidly approaching. So my current writing goal is to be ready to launch by the end of the month. I'm nervous, but excited
Catching up, Day 17: Always be ready to roll with the punches. You never know when this adventure will end and the next one will begin. You also never know when you might have to run from a robot or a dinosaur.
-Gray
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-Gray
#TimeTravelAuthors
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Catching up, Day 17: Always be ready to roll with the punches. You never know when this adventure will end and the next one will begin. You also never know when you might have to run from a robot or a dinosaur.
-Gray
#TimeTravelAuthors
-Gray
#TimeTravelAuthors
Day 15: "Gray, I’m giving you a lot of leeway here. Much more than I normally give my writers... I didn’t even say anything when you wanted to name the main character after yourself, even though I thought it was pretentious."
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#TimeTravelAuthors
October 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Day 15: "Gray, I’m giving you a lot of leeway here. Much more than I normally give my writers... I didn’t even say anything when you wanted to name the main character after yourself, even though I thought it was pretentious."
#TimeTravelAuthors
#TimeTravelAuthors
Day 9: I have great respect for my mentor, Dr. Albert Flynn, inventor of time travel and founder of the Temporal Institute. But right now, I think my favorite person is whoever has been leaving me messages at different points across the timeline about possible rescue.
-Gray
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-Gray
#TimeTravelAuthors
October 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Day 9: I have great respect for my mentor, Dr. Albert Flynn, inventor of time travel and founder of the Temporal Institute. But right now, I think my favorite person is whoever has been leaving me messages at different points across the timeline about possible rescue.
-Gray
#TimeTravelAuthors
-Gray
#TimeTravelAuthors
Day 7: Odd is relative when you're jumping around the timeline, but in one era, there was a hologram who knew my name and tried to sell me a weekend at an ultra-luxury resort. The advertising in that era integrated directly with your brain, which was disconcerting.
-Gray
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-Gray
#TimeTravelAuthors
October 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Day 7: Odd is relative when you're jumping around the timeline, but in one era, there was a hologram who knew my name and tried to sell me a weekend at an ultra-luxury resort. The advertising in that era integrated directly with your brain, which was disconcerting.
-Gray
#TimeTravelAuthors
-Gray
#TimeTravelAuthors
Day 5: I had hoped I might be the main character, but as the story progresses it seems I'm less and less so. But my plight is the driving force for the MC (I'm not sure if I've met her or not; she seems vaguely familiar) as well as for the villains, who want to stop us both. -Gray
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October 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Day 5: I had hoped I might be the main character, but as the story progresses it seems I'm less and less so. But my plight is the driving force for the MC (I'm not sure if I've met her or not; she seems vaguely familiar) as well as for the villains, who want to stop us both. -Gray
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#TimeTravelAuthors
Day 3 - (Is it a day late, or did I jump to the wrong day? At this point, I'm lucky just to be in the right century)
Ironically, though this is my first line of dialogue, it's actually one of my last field reports, before things go completely off the rails.
-Gray
#TimeTravelAuthors
Ironically, though this is my first line of dialogue, it's actually one of my last field reports, before things go completely off the rails.
-Gray
#TimeTravelAuthors
October 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Day 3 - (Is it a day late, or did I jump to the wrong day? At this point, I'm lucky just to be in the right century)
Ironically, though this is my first line of dialogue, it's actually one of my last field reports, before things go completely off the rails.
-Gray
#TimeTravelAuthors
Ironically, though this is my first line of dialogue, it's actually one of my last field reports, before things go completely off the rails.
-Gray
#TimeTravelAuthors
New month of #TimeTravelAuthors prompts. Since Steve has been slacking, I'm taking over. I'm Grey Merrick, of the Temporal Institute. I've been field testing their new time travel technology, but something has gone wrong. Now I'm being catapulted from era to era completely at random. A Time Jumper.
October 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
New month of #TimeTravelAuthors prompts. Since Steve has been slacking, I'm taking over. I'm Grey Merrick, of the Temporal Institute. I've been field testing their new time travel technology, but something has gone wrong. Now I'm being catapulted from era to era completely at random. A Time Jumper.
Haven't been on here much lately, and I've been neglecting the #TimeTravelAuthors prompts. But the last few days, I've been browsing through old documents and happened across two different time travel projects, left unfinished and forgotten. Now I'm excited to make cool time travel stuff again.
September 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Haven't been on here much lately, and I've been neglecting the #TimeTravelAuthors prompts. But the last few days, I've been browsing through old documents and happened across two different time travel projects, left unfinished and forgotten. Now I'm excited to make cool time travel stuff again.
Slightly Diminish a Book:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Solar System
A Little Bit of Chatter on the Western Front
Alice's Adventures in Scottsdale
A Game of Regular Chairs
All the Lieutenant Governor's Men
The Grapes of Perturbation
Tax Fraud on the Orient Express
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Solar System
A Little Bit of Chatter on the Western Front
Alice's Adventures in Scottsdale
A Game of Regular Chairs
All the Lieutenant Governor's Men
The Grapes of Perturbation
Tax Fraud on the Orient Express
Slightly diminish a book.
Flowers in the Vase
Flowers in the Vase
September 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Slightly Diminish a Book:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Solar System
A Little Bit of Chatter on the Western Front
Alice's Adventures in Scottsdale
A Game of Regular Chairs
All the Lieutenant Governor's Men
The Grapes of Perturbation
Tax Fraud on the Orient Express
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Solar System
A Little Bit of Chatter on the Western Front
Alice's Adventures in Scottsdale
A Game of Regular Chairs
All the Lieutenant Governor's Men
The Grapes of Perturbation
Tax Fraud on the Orient Express
I'm way behind of #TimeTravelAuthors posts, but I'm still doing cool time travel stuff. Recently, I've been making plans for a time travel-themed fundraiser dinner with my theater group. And if any of you want to make the trek out to L.A., you're all totally invited.
July 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I'm way behind of #TimeTravelAuthors posts, but I'm still doing cool time travel stuff. Recently, I've been making plans for a time travel-themed fundraiser dinner with my theater group. And if any of you want to make the trek out to L.A., you're all totally invited.