An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
I wrote an essay on furry fiction a few years back (‘22) that was very well received (even won a Leo Literary Award and nominated for an Ursa Major).
Here’s a line from it:
“Arguably, every android character ever written is furry, because androids are anthropomorphic machines.” Continue reading “Furry and AI”
by Mary E. Lowd
Cat…
…looks like: it’s for hugging!
…thinks that: it’s not for hugging?!?!?
by Mary E. Lowd
Both better
And not good enough
That’s how he makes me feel Continue reading “Estranged Daughter”
My 12-year-old tried to claim we can’t put them to bed, because it’s noon not midnight. I asked what happened to the sun.
Their answer? “The same people who stole from the Louvre stole it… by pretending to be planets.”
It’s the final detail that really makes it.
by Mary E. Lowd
Have you ever looked at your father’s eyes
Lighting up with love
As he talks about you
When you were a baby
Only to have him dismiss
Everything you say
Brush aside
Every opinion Continue reading “A Father’s Love”
This is not a poem
This is only a test
But what is a poem?
And what is a test?
Are we not all tests of poems and poems of tests?
Originally, my idea was that “Breathing the Air at Wespirtech” would be my first novel… but the idea was way too hard for my writing skills back then. Eventually, twenty years later, I managed to write it as a short story. I absolutely love the song version.
Since I turned my story, “Slug Time” (about a far future scientist trying to make a universal translator), into a catchy 80s-style song, my kids have started using the phrase “slug time” to mean mindless relaxation, which is kinda cool. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes – Welcome to Wespirtech”
My story “Fetching Asteroids” is only 300 words, but as a song… oh my god. Just oh my god. I can’t believe it’s real I can make songs like this exist now. I’ve been doing it for the last 2.5 months straight, and I still just can’t really believe it.
The main character in “A Real Stand-Up Guy” is like if Stephen Colbert were a pug dog in the Otters In Space universe. I love him so much. So the song had to get him just right, and, ugh, when he stops singing to say the “I don’t care” line… so perfect. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes – Paw Prints Beyond the Moon”
by Mary E. Lowd
The tiger paces
While the zookeeper watches
Desperately wanting
To rake its claws Continue reading “Trapped Tiger”
I was okay with the end of Stranger Things, but I’m definitely looking forward to the fan made Conformity Gate alternate ending that will almost certainly come out some time in the next few years when AI video gets a little easier to control.
Me: sets out to write a story inspired by The Manchurian Candidate after watching the relevant Star Trek episode, both movie versions, and reading the original book Continue reading “A Confluence of Trek”