An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
by Mary E. Lowd
Originally published in Paw Prints Beyond the Moon, July 2024
Warm air, sun-dappled pink tea roses, and the drowsy hum of bees melted away the cold from outer space that chilled the Time Tortoise. He had hidden inside his shell, wrapped in his silken robe, and watched the spiral galaxy, Galapagofrey, twist and crush down into a pinpoint black hole. Supermassive. His home galaxy was gone.
He needed something new. Continue reading “Chrysalis Can Wait”
by Mary E. Lowd
Feet frozen from the ice cold water
So numb, I can’t feel the sand
The sun keeps dropping lower
This is where I’ve chosen to stand Continue reading “Standing at the Edge of Forever”
by Mary E. Lowd
Lacy wavelets chase
Away from a diminishing horizon Continue reading “The Endless Sea”
by Mary E. Lowd
Scuttling, scurrying
Tentacles wrangling
Rainbow shell glistening Continue reading “Tiny Rainbow Kraken”
by Mary E. Lowd
Roaring with the waves
Rising from the deep
Chasing what it craves Continue reading “The Seashell Monster”
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Best of friends, strolling and talking
Sharing their longing, for days gone by Continue reading “The Dragon and the Unicorn”
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A very happy kite
Waving in the wind
Only truly alive
As long as the air lifts them Continue reading “The Octopus Kite”
by Mary E. Lowd
Broken fragments
Of underwater life
Discarded, crumbling Continue reading “Collecting Seashells”
Me: How much cake is left?
Spouse: None.
Me: No cake?!? That’s the worst amount of cake. Continue reading “Infinite Cake”
by Mary E. Lowd
Death is too big a subject
To come at straight on
You need to circle around it
Stalking it Continue reading “Mortality Poems”