Spaceports & Spidersilk April 2014

By Marcie Tentchoff

Spaceports & Spidersilk specializes in science fiction and fantasy for children of all ages. Entertain your inner child, or your real child by picking up a copy today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nomadic Delirium Press
• Release date: Mar 31, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311589897

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Spaceports & Spidersilk

April 2014

Edited by Marcie Tentchoff

Published by Nomadic Delirium Press at Smashwords

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Cover art: Strawberry Dragon by Vonnie Winslow Crist

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Table of Contents

From the Editor

Relative by Francis W. Alexande

Rite of Passage by Emily Martha Sorensen

Creeping Shadows by Guy Belleranti

To Be a Tree by Anne E. Johnson

Journey by John Hayes

Monster Fish by Guy Belleranti

A Tale Told by a Troll by Elizabeth Glann

Two Beamers, a Bubbles and Idgely by Gilda A. Herrera

The Aliens have Landed by Lauren McBride

The Doll Factory Sometimes the monster is you. by Marc Lecard

From the Editor

Welcome, readers, to the April issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk. Officially, Spring has sprung, though it can be hard to judge seasonal changes from here at my desk. Luckily, the stories and poems gathered here share a commonality beyond weather patterns and hayfever. These are tales of pushing boundaries, of going outside comfort zones, both in terms of location and social convention. Here you will find stories of young people who take on responsibilities their friends and families might never understand, and who form friendships and working relationships with people and creatures in whom their friends and family might never believe.

Whether the protagonists in these narratives are choosing to travel light-years from their homes, or to protect and befriend alien or supernatural beings, they are making unusual choices, thinking outside the box, and apart from the herd.

Such strange choices can lead to stranger consequences-- and those, in turn, are what can make reading magical.

Relative

by Francis W. Alexander

Last night I dreamed

of vacationing on Kepler 62e,

the newly discovered water world

nearly twice earth’s size.

Spring had bowed to summer.

The orange sunlight skated

over my blond hair.

I swam amongst chunks of ice

in water that seemed to go forever.

A gilled man rose to the surface

and we were both startled.

I tried to swim away

and saw that he too was retreating.

On his