Discovery of the Wanderlust – Chapter 1: The Endless Liminal Space

by Mary E. Lowd

An excerpt from Discovery of the Wanderlust.  If you’d prefer to read in e-book or paperback form, learn more here.  Or if you want, skip ahead to the next chapter.

“Once Captain Carroway insisted that everyone had to wear regulation union uniforms while on duty, she made it happen, even if it involved repeatedly mending new tears in Lt. Diaz’s uniform with her own paws.”

A small ship armed to the teeth flew across the Tetra Galaxy, always aimed toward the Milky Way, like an arrow pointing home.  The Wanderlust had been designed for a crew of twelve to eighteen, so theoretically, there was plenty of space for the eleven officers living there.  But no one in the Tri-Galactic Union had ever predicted a crew like this one.

Lieutenant T’lia Diaz didn’t think much of the Tri-Galactic Union.  She’d attended their academy, served on a ship — a different one, back before everything had gone wrong — and risen to the rank of lieutenant before.  Then she’d quit, joined the Anti-Ra, and been labelled a terrorist.  All for the crime of defending her homeworld.  If she had her way, Lt. Diaz would have never worn a Tri-Galactic Union uniform again, but very little had gone her way in the last six months. Continue reading “Discovery of the Wanderlust – Chapter 1: The Endless Liminal Space”

Insipid Liner Notes – Animal Voices, Unicorn Whispers: Disc 2

My story, “Hide the Honey,” was inspired by my first experience drinking caffeine when I was a kid. It was such a giddy high, and the song absolutely captures the bubbly, fizzy nature of it.

My kid had to write a research essay a few years ago with the title “Jellyfish for Dinner,” so I promised to work on a short story by the same name while he worked on the essay… anyway, this means there’s now a song by that title too. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes – Animal Voices, Unicorn Whispers: Disc 2”

An Avalanche of Music

Being able to make my own music with Suno these last few weeks has been such a massively seismic shift in my life. Famine to feast literally overnight, and it’s been taking everything in my brain to process it. I’ve never had enough of the kind of music I want ever before.

There’s just really not quite any other feeling like having whole albums of music perfectly, carefully tailored to my own tastes, filled with messages that mean something to me.