An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
Let Robot Weekend commence with the watching of Short Circuit!
We’ve been meaning to do a Robot Weekend for a long time, but always get stuck on the question of what thematic food would be… Finally, we mostly just gave up on that question and are starting with some chex mix. Continue reading “Re-watching Short Circuit”
I’m currently reading 3 books—one as part of a race with my 9-year-old; one alongside my 15-year-old for their Gothic Lit class; and one just for me.
I’m interested in and enjoying all three. But I just got to spend an hour reading the one for just me, and it was really nice.
I love how totally unfazed everyone on DS9 is by Kira’s constant, simmering rage at everything. She’s effective; she’s reasonable; she’s their friend. They don’t police her tone. I wish so dearly the real world could be a place like that for me.
Diablo 3 seasons pro-tip: if you’re trying to solo the Boss Mode conquest and want to keep track of time without wasting any looking at it, listen to a 20-min music album you know well.
I like to listen to the Once Upon a Time musical episode soundtrack.
I really wonder what I would have thought of the Animorphs books if I’d read them when came out, or better yet, a few years earlier even. Would I have loved them? I was a pretty opinionated, judgmental kid… but I think I might have loved them so much it would have changed me.
Would I have written different books myself if I’d read Animorphs when I was a kid? I think that’s really possible, and it makes me wonder what those books would’ve been. Continue reading “If I’d Encountered Animorphs Earlier…”
My kid was refusing to write a post for their English class about what they like to read. So, I wrote something for them:
"I lie= to read CLOWN books. Only book s with lowsns. It's like being a furry. But for clowns Is good post now"
Some of my best work, I think.
by Mary E. Lowd
A Deep Sky Anchor Original, September 2022
The lion cub hid among the rushes and narcissus flowers at the edge of the lake and watched her father, King of the Jungle, meet and talk with the shining white unicorn who presided over the deep dark woods adjacent to the lions’ sunny savannah home.
Sarah thought the unicorn’s forest looked more like a jungle than their savannah did, and she wanted to tell the unicorn that… but she’d promised her father to hide quietly during his meeting. He only brought one cub with him at a time to these meetings, and given her plethora of sisters, brothers, half-siblings, and cousins, Sarah’s turn to accompany her father didn’t turn up very often. She wanted to prove she could be a good little cub, so she stayed quiet as a mouse. Continue reading “Sarah Flowermane and the Unicorn”
Each story is a chance to reach and win over new readers. The more stories you write and release, the more chances you have at your work being found.
But even if a story isn’t found right away, if you keep it available, it still has a chance of being found later and being loved.
Just reading Animorphs #8, thinking about how Ax knows the word “globules” but not “chocolate” and how beloved these books are and how ridiculous it was for my writing group to give me so much trouble for doing similar things in my Shreddy stories.
Unpopular opinion (& spoiler?): the end of How I Met Your Mother is absolutely fantastic. It’s heavily foreshadowed and a really beautiful, valuable lesson — Ted can both deeply treasure his time with the mother and still seek love again, without minimizing either relationship. Continue reading “How I Met Your Mother is Robin’s Story”