Category Archives: Science Fiction

Visitor Angela Acosta I walk this Earth a visitor, a cosmic wanderer tethered to this globe by gravity. I am the universe sensing itself. This one sentient life is all I get, but millions of stars twinkle at me, a … Continue reading →

Terran Born Angela Acosta Made of carbon, shaped in amniotic fluid born into gravity, we are the terran born. We are all space travelers, from Terra to the Kuiper belt, from exoplanets to sunlight valleys. Illuminated we are by light … Continue reading →

Matter of Life Helga Anton-Beitz having tenure on electron’s term so busy buzzing not too distant by no means too close to the very core in any circumstances at an insane pace for annihilation lurks in the fine print

unmanned exploration Herb Kauderer wire capillaries call plasteel heart new heat grows in aluminum breast photo sensors flicker detecting morning light lubricants circulate to grinding servos unsteady movements greet foreign dawn while startled morning birds flutter off and sail to … Continue reading →

failed diplomacy Herb Kauderer at the foot of the lander’s ladder the creature lurks not really orange in this light, more tan & white with jagged edged ears and right fang shining over dropped lip the triangle jaw gives up … Continue reading →

Search Party Denny E. Marshall After a long voyage Aliens finally arrive To rescue their friends The search starts In the desert Soon all are arrested Back at the ship The remaining crew Tries to figure out What Area 51 … Continue reading →

Spiral Arms Sky Denny E. Marshall Border of spiral galaxy Mountain asteroid city shines Tall ice castle’s close together Surface cover of cold light snow A slight lean towards heavy side Slow spin rotates towns and shadows From balcony long … Continue reading →

Saturnine Deborah L. Davitt Ice rings swirl in light, casting shadows, ghosts of lost moons; Saturn devours his children.

Space Disc Robert Shigelsky autonomous rex rocket-packed rover over shooting extruding star power chasing frisbees in space END

Abandoned Sphere Wendy Van Camp lack of radiation dead statites enclose alien star we claim all salvage rights

KIC 8462852 Wendy Van Camp fifteen hundred light years human warp drive propels ship odd pulses promise life

Crush Wendy Van Camp Spaceship seeks floating city in Purgatory finds crushing darkness

Venus Ascending Wendy Van Camp airship city floats above toxic clouds mysterious Venus

Orbiting Secrets Wendy Van Camp In stationary orbit city in the clouds learning secrets

Exoskeleton Wendy Van Camp mechanical actuators network printed cradle supports my form dawn on hypergravity world

Butterfly Effect Wendy Van Camp stalking a t-rex hunter steps on butterfly past shifts future forever

Time Machine Wendy Van Camp morlocks below me machine moves through time not space pull it to Weena

Oblivion Wendy Van Camp preventing past dance no meeting of grandparents everyone goes poof

Stalled Wendy Van Camp historical moment past. present. future. merge. time machine stalled

Drop Wendy Van Camp shot from LaGrange Point platinum package explodes sand special delivery to Earth

Ark Wendy Van Camp slingshot to Mars a hollow asteroid ark immigration begins

Miners Wendy Van Camp robot shovel grinds inner metal wealth of the core asteroid mining

Harvest Wendy Van Camp   it is in the bag rare earth metal treasure asteroid harvest

Cold Wendy Van Camp   Twin moons chase stars Mars descends into the cold Another night alone

Rust Wendy Van Camp   Martian hue isn’t blue rusty skies in morning light color me pink

Giant Robots Loot the Oort!David C. Kopaska-MerkelKendall Evans Giant robots loot the Oort Cloud (When not taking time outTo pose for the coversOf science fiction magazinesPublished back in the 1940’s and 50’s)The tabloids say they’ve been snortingComet dustSmearing it on each … Continue reading →