An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
At the end of 2016, we had big plans for publishing a lot of flash fiction this year. Well, we have good news and bad news… Obviously, it’s September, and we haven’t published a lot this year. However, that’s because the stories we were going to publish have instead been picked up by other markets — many of them by Daily Science Fiction! Continue reading “So Much Flash…”
by Mary E. Lowd
Originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April 2017
S’lisha drew a deep, calming breath through her scaly nostrils. She didn’t understand why humans brought their children on spaceships. Her species kept their larval offspring in caves on their home world until they matured and their adult scales grew in. Continue reading “Hidden Intentions”
The kids think the Oregon Air and Space Museum — a small, eclectic airplane hangar filled with planes and mannequins — would be a good setting for a Doctor Who episode.
The four-year-old likes the planes but is creeped out by the mannequins. The ten-year-old is now completely lost in recounting episodes of Doctor Who. Continue reading “Visiting the Oregon Air and Space Museum…”
Four-year-old: “Sometime I would like to say ‘breakfast’ to you.”
Me: “Okay, say it.”
Him: “No, while you’re asleep.”
Me: “You want to wake me up by saying ‘breakfast’?” Continue reading “Breakfast To You”
by Mary E. Lowd
Originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2014
A wise parent would never leave her one-handed child alone with a six-handed bachelor. A relationship between such unequals would only lead to heartbreak, or worse. Neither of Delundia’s parents, however, was especially wise. They’d met, married, and mated at the foolish young times after first-birth for Londe and second-birth for Arendell, soon leaving them with two young babies and only three hands between them. Continue reading “The Hand-Havers”
It’s time to listen to dozens of different covers of “I Fought The Law” all in a row.
Three of our stories have been nominated for Best Short Story in the Ursa Major Awards! This is truly exciting news! Thank you so much to everyone who helped nominate them! Here are the three stories: Continue reading “Ursa Major Nominated Shorts!”
I love the new Bunnicula cartoons so much. They make my Necromouser stories feel like retroactive fan fiction.
It’s so much harder to drag the three-year-old away from the toys at Barnes & Noble when I’m easily distracted by toys too…
Shortbread, cinnamon apple tea in fancy teacups from a thrift store, and watching a bunch of singing animals put on a show in Sing.
Nine-year-old: “Some people need to live in salt water.”
Me: *confused silence*
Nine-year-old: “And by people, I mean fish.”