Tag: space
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Wednesday Words (late) Ray Bradbury: If Only We Had Taller Been
I posted an NPR video a few days ago that featured this poem, and the video below, because it is SO DAMNED AWESOME, and because I’ve been reminded lately of how America, distracted by fear, anger, hate, suspicion, partisan caterwauling and self-serving rhetoric, has surrendered our collective zeal for greatness, settling for loudmouthed mediocrity. I…
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Pluto Shits on the Universe By Fatimah Asghar
Pluto Shits on the Universe By Fatimah Asghar http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/250212 On February 7, 1979, Pluto crossed over Neptune’s orbit and became the eighth planet from the sun for twenty years. A study in 1988 determined that Pluto’s path of orbit could never be accurately predicted. Labeled as “chaotic,” Pluto was later discredited from planet status in…
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Keeping With the Speculative Fiction Sub-Theme…
http://www.amazon.com/COVER-RUTHVEN-ROCKET-MUSHROOM-ART/dp/B00GV4QYSG/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_3
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Excerpt: Novel in Progress
Someone asked me about the novel in progress…here’s some: It took both of them to drag me up from the hole, and from their grunts and curses it wasn’t easy for them. I had stopped struggling weeks before, and was paid for it with harder currency than when I’d fought back, but there wasn’t a…
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Novella Excerpt: Sharp Del
“Come on out of there, you motherless—.” Sharp Del’s voice died beneath a deeper, more malevolent rumble. “My mother,” the hulking Brin stepped out from the shadows behind him, “was very young.” Sharp Del whirled around with startled fury, swinging the heavy ball gun a bit further from his body than he ought to…
Old Road Apples 