An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
Two chew toys and a remote control… guess which one the puppy wants to gnaw…
Well, today’s been complicated emotionally…
It sounds like our kitten, Hazel, will be okay, but last night her suture from being spayed last week started gushing milky white pus like the android in Alien when he gets speared through the middle. Continue reading “Puppy and Kitten”
If I controlled the universe, every day would be filled with 60s style pop songs about spaceships, sung by talking animals.
Yes, I’d change the genre of our space-time continuum to a furry sci-fi pop musical. I don’t know what the deal is with all this mainstream nonsense. Continue reading “Long Day of New Puppy”
A reader pointed out the way I’ve been posting about my new puppy (24 hrs!) sounds a lot like the voice of Cassie, the living spaceship in my Entangled Universe trilogy who loves bunnies.
I’ve been thinking about that a lot… Continue reading “Clarity & Cassie: the Conscious and Subconscious Mind”
So, I got confused while watching The Clone Wars and thought the “movie” went at the end, after the rest of the series. You know, rather than jammed somewhere in the middle of the first three seasons…
Anyway, I’m just now seeing the tiny baby Jabba. Continue reading “Star Wars Catch-Up, Harrison Ford Dream, Etc.”
by Mary E. Lowd
Originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November/December 2020
Addie stepped onto the fanciest spaceship she’d ever seen and thrilled at the idea that she might soon own it. The twinkling lights, the shining displays, the dashboards of brightly colored buttons — all hers! She’d been saving credits for years and finally had enough to buy a fully AI-equipped, FTL-drive starhopper. Continue reading “Courtship FTL”
The Bengal cats refuse to believe that my keyboard is not for walking on. They are adamant. They are stubborn. They are plural. They are winning this fight.
Me: 52 hours until new puppy!!!
My brain: what if… getting a puppy doesn’t magically fix everything and make us perfectly happy? Continue reading “Stray Thoughts While Waiting for the New Puppy”
My fursona is usually a cat with a tortoise’s shell. So, like, a turtle-cat.
But I’ve thought of a new fursona that speaks to me: an octopus who got ahold of an abandoned human skeleton, wrapped its tentacles around it, and wobbles about that way. Continue reading “My Fursona”
That feeling when a man has asked you to help him learn how to be better by pointing out when he does something wrong, and yet when you do so, he makes it all about his feelings instead of the actual thing.
I rewatched Dead Again (1991) for the first time in ages, and that script is tight. So smart and well-written. So, I looked up the writer’s other credits…
Scott Frank wrote Logan (2017). Yeah. Continue reading “From Dead Again to Queen’s Gambit”
Out of context quote: “Well, on the bright side, there’s already butter everywhere anyway.”