by Mary E. Lowd
Is it a cat
bewitched to become
a pumpkin?
Or a pumpkin
bewitched to become
a cat? Continue reading “Pumpkin-Cat”
An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
by Mary E. Lowd
Is it a cat
bewitched to become
a pumpkin?
Or a pumpkin
bewitched to become
a cat? Continue reading “Pumpkin-Cat”
by Mary E. Lowd
Purring sweetly
Claws sheathed neatly
Pumpkin grinning
Wicked, yet winning Continue reading “Pumpkin Tricks, Kitten Treats”
Just hurry-scurry trying to work out ways to fix the major plot holes in the book I outlined three years ago that I intend to start writing in half an hour for NaNoWriMo over here…
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 3: Octopus Ascending. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
The mysterious machinations of the octopus government in Choir’s Deep kept Kipper and the otters on the Diving Canary waiting for nearly two days. Kipper did a lot more reading. Trugger found a deck of tarot cards that some previous occupant of the submarine had left behind and invented a card game that was a cross between tarot and poker.
Trugger, Captain Cod, Chauncy, and Pearl took turns laying out cards to tell each other’s fortunes, betting on them, trading them, and mixing them up, all while laughing a lot. Kipper declined to play, feeling like she’d already bet too much on her fortune. Continue reading “Otters In Space 3 – Chapter 12: Kipper”
A book twenty years in the making…
Back in 2003, Mary E. Lowd began writing short stories set in the Entangled Universe, many of them centered on an elite science institute on a desolate moon — WESPIRTECH!
A decade later, a bunch of the Wespirtech stories were collected together in Welcome to Wespirtech, but the story told by that collection was always incomplete. Two of the most important stories about Wespirtech — “Breathing the Air at Wespirtech” and “Lunar Cavity” — hadn’t been written yet. Continue reading “Welcome to Wespirtech: 2nd Edition”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 3: Octopus Ascending. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
The pew-pew sound of laser weapons blared from the television — the kind of sound that’s always accompanied by a rain of colorful blasts of light on the screen. It was a rerun episode of Tri-Galactic Trek.
Petra hadn’t been able to stand a single minute more of Alpha Dog and Numbers Cat. That show might be educational, but it creeped Petra out the way that the two characters stared straight at the audience and explained every word they used. The final straw had been when Alpha Dog said, “Sharing is what dogs do when there isn’t enough for everyone to have their own! Do cats share too, Numbers Cat?” and Numbers Cat archly replied, “Sometimes,” followed by a laugh track. Continue reading “Otters In Space 3 – Chapter 11: Petra”
Apologies in advance…
If you’re in a room with someone named Art, and they leave, you’re artless.
If you’re in a room with someone named Ruth, and they leave, you’re ruthless. Continue reading “Terrible Joke”
This won’t mean anything to anyone who hasn’t read my robot fiction, but watching Lee Pace in Foundation makes it clear that he’d be absolutely perfect as Gerangelo.
Also, I’ve always liked the idea of Claudia Black for Maradia.
So… uh… universe please get to work on that.
Watching Friends was how I made it through the end of college, after my actual friend group crash and burned around me. It made such a difference.
Also, I have a plush frog named Chnandler (that’s not a typo; it’s a deep cut) sitting on my bed right now.
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 3: Octopus Ascending. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
Jenny and Ordol were suited up and ready in Brighton’s Destiny, but the two-man Whirligig vessel was still parked on the floating roof of the Europa base. The Imperial Star-Ocean Navy otters and their five ships were already in low-orbit, but Ordol hadn’t even powered the Whirligig’s engine up yet.
Jenny couldn’t start the vessel without him. Too many of the controls were designed to be used by an octopus on the shoulders of a biped. Jenny couldn’t see Ordol’s eyes with him perched on her shoulders — but she could see the color of his tentacles through his translucent spacesuit. His flesh was bone white. He was terrified. Continue reading “Otters In Space 3 – Chapter 10: Jenny”