An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
Absolutely burst into laughter when a cover of “Crimson and Clover” started playing during a feast in the middle of a forest in the fantasy show Willow. (Yes, I’m several episodes behind.)
Really nice cover though. And love the weirdness of the choice. Continue reading “Willow and Quantum Leap”
I’m so furious about my kids’ school policies about “attendance.”
Both of my kids are bright, have no trouble keeping up at school, and are doing distance learning. Yet, because we took them on a week-long trip where they didn’t log into their classes, the school’s in an uproar.
We tried warning the school that we’d be traveling to a family member’s wedding, but we were told family trips weren’t a valid excuse for an absence. Continue reading “Attendance Policies, Broken Keyboards, and Hidden Mold”
by Mary E. Lowd
A Deep Sky Anchor Original, January 2023
Bark broke from the trunk of the sharillow trees in large, curved chunks, littering the forest floor along with their fallen leaves. Storakka sifted through the pieces at the base of the biggest tree she could find, her talons running over the slightly curved sheaves of wood, rough on one side and smooth on the other. Finally she found an oval one she liked, about the same size as a human face. Continue reading “The Dragon’s Mask”
by Mary E. Lowd
Originally published in Oxfurred Comma Flash Fiction Contest, July 2022
Amber fluid dripped from the hive, but it wasn’t honey. It was thick and gooey and satiated. The amorphous being, gold and honey-like, had infiltrated the hive, feasted on the honey and then on the worker bees who’d made the honey; then the drones who the worker bees had waited on; and finally, on the delectable morsels of unfinished dough that were the eggs and pupae.
But not the queen. Continue reading “The Freedom of the Queen”
I’ve never been woken up by the crowing of a rooster before…
Time to put ear plugs in and go back to sleep.
Mango toast and fresh pineapple for breakfast. Continue reading “Last Day in Hawaii”
Turns out my sleep schedule wasn’t broken… I just switched to Hawaii time several months in advance of finding out I’d be coming to Hawaii.
Snorkeling is magical. Continue reading “Just Another Day in Hawaii”
The 15-year-old this morning at a zip line place: *steps into thin air to ride a half mile zip line with zero fear*
The 15-year-old this evening at a restaurant, expressing genuine anxiety: “I’m just afraid they’ll bring the mushrooms out before I’m ready for them.”
Thor: Love and Thunder seems pretty good. It’s hard to be totally sure since I watched it on an airplane after getting up at crazy-still-dark-AM-early o’clock and was too tired to be awake but too uncomfortable to be asleep. Continue reading “Flying to Hawaii”
Just listenin’ to the Beach Boys’ song “Hawaii”… in Hawaii. No big deal.
This year Deep Sky Anchor took a big step forward and released 9 all new, original pieces of fiction and one non-fiction essay! If you’re reading for awards or just for fun, we’d love to have you read them.
Here are links to all our original releases from 2022, along with their genres, approximate word counts, and the month they were released: Continue reading “Awards Eligible Stories in 2022”