Beautiful Days

Time twists. Reality slips. And nothing—especially the people closest to us—stays quite the same.

In this haunting, dreamlike collection, a couple trapped in a house deep in the woods begins aging at a terrifying pace while their toddler remains untouched. A weary office worker uncovers unsettling conspiracies in a seemingly abandoned building. A jaded tour guide suspects his group may not be entirely human—and that the real danger might not lie in the ruins they came to see.

In ten sharply crafted stories, Zach Williams explores the surreal cracks in ordinary life: the quiet unraveling of relationships, the fragile boundaries of sanity, and the strange, beautiful terror of time moving forward, whether we’re ready or not. Beautiful Days is an unsettling, unforgettable debut that reveals just how thin the veil of normalcy can be—and what waits beneath it.