An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
It’s small, but I really love how good AI is at things like this…
Me: Can you think of a word somewhere between “crashed into each other,” “crossed paths,” and “collapsed”?
And instantly, ChatGPT provides “collided” which is exactly the word that had been eluding me.
by Mary E. Lowd
The fabric of her spacesuit
Has to be
So very fine, so very thin Continue reading “Beyond Blue Ceilings”
We watched the movies “21 Jump Street” and “22 Jump Street” this weekend. They’re kind of dumb, but also fairly fun. I remember watching reruns of the original show back in the 90s. My little sister really liked it. I remembered approximately three specific things from the show: Continue reading “21 Jump Street”
by Mary E. Lowd
She’ll live forever
Just to spite
The pretenders
To her throne Continue reading “The Ancient Cat Queen”
by Mary E. Lowd
When snow comes for the sun
Cooling the warm heart in our sky
Every sparkling flake
As it falls
Waits to be undone Continue reading “Snow on the Sun”
by Mary E. Lowd
As ephemeral as a bubble
As temporally sudden—
A blip, a slip, a city Continue reading “City on the Sun”
by Mary E. Lowd
Cool, pale, sunlight-yellow
A cheerful veneer
Hiding the anger Continue reading “The Windswept Rose”
by Mary E. Lowd
A telepathic invitation beams
Straight into your brain
Straightaway letting you know
It’s time to go Continue reading “The Invitation”
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”