Spaceports & Spidersilk July 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: Jun 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311363077

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1Spaceports & Spidersilk

July 2014

Edited by Marcie Tentchoff

Published by Nomadic Delirium Press at Smashwords

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Cover art: Under the Ice on Enceladus by Richard H. Fay

Contents

From the Editor

Untitled by Lauren McBride

Class Trip by Jean Mills

Diamonds and Toads by Alicia Cole

Corner Creatures by Brian Barnett

Opened Doors by JD DeHart

Grandma’s Sun by Katia Raina

Gift for Mom by Guy Belleranti

Advanced Precognition by Emily Martha Sorensen

Is Anybody Out There? by John Grey

In the Kappa’s Garden by Jeff Chapman

From the Editor

Dear Readers,

Welcome to the summer issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk. I never specifically ask for the stories and poetry for different issues to follow specific ideas or paterns. Sure, I sometimes ask for a seasonal spin, and I tend to select spookier pieces in the fall issue, but that’s all. And still, some issues seem to attract multiple stories about pets, some about the strength and hazzards of friendships, while some revolve, somehow, and without my known intent, around the dangers inherant in making a choice.

Once again, when looking through the content of this issue, I’m recognizing a common theme. Many of the stories and poems you will read here deal with the unforseen, with the concept of not knowing what lies ahead. In some cases precognition is used to try to figure the future out in advance, and in some cases the joy is is not knowing for sure exactly what is out there, and what is going to happen. Still, from the simple question of what lurks behind an unopened door, or inside an unopened package of seeds, to dark, worried wonderings about an odd-seeming neighbor, there can be only one true action when readers want to know about that which is still unknown.

Read. Open those doors, those packages. Step into strange gardens, and futures. There, up ahead, is where the magic waits.

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by Lauren McBride

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