PROSE
From Fictive Dream: Pickers by D.S. Levy. A garage sale brings back old memories for a woman unusually devoid of sentimentality.
Right, Colleen thought, just like the cow would match the purple moon hanging over their house.
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From Jokes Review: …In Space! A new issue of the satirical magazine.
Will there be milk on your spacecraft? I hope so. I’m bringing some Ring Dings for a snack because I figure the tin foil wrapping will protect them from any cosmic rays we may encounter. (Message to Zargofarse The Third…)
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From Okay Donkey: Ladybird, Ladybird by DeMisty Bellinger. A surreal story about a woman contemplating her life while eating a talking bird (maybe).
I imaging taking one of my chopsticks and turning it away from the deep-fried tofu and towards him. I see myself forcing its dull tip into his chest, breaking beyond errant bones and stringent skin, plunging through to his heart.
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From The Drabble: Perfect Match by Amanda Quinn. The (very) short tale of a romance too good to be true.
Things moved fast, but never at yours.
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From Write Ahead / The Future Looms: Handiwork by V.F. Thompson. Of hypercode constructs and domestic tensions.
Barley went quiet, staring at the galaxy that whirled beneath the missing tile.
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VERSE
From The Cheesesellers Wife: The Letter. A tribute to the author’s Great Grandfather, husband and soldier in the Boer War.
tells of the fury and terror of local thunderstorms
talks of photos and chocolate received
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ESSAYS
From Momus News: Technobabble Versus Technical Description by E. A. Wicklund. An insightful article for novice fiction writers.
Any topic, from rockets to magic to basket-weaving can have their technical aspects, using terms and concepts most people have never heard of. That doesn’t mean describing them is therefore technobabbling.
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