Spaceports & Spidersilk January 2015

By Marcie Tentchoff

Spaceports & Spidersilk features some of the best science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry for kids of all ages. The January 2015 issue will take you to places you might never have imagined, and Nomadic Delirium Press is reducing the price on all of the 2015 issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nomadic Delirium Press
• Release date: Dec 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310953392

Book preview

1Spaceports & Spidersilk

January 2015

Edited by Marcie Tentchoff

Published by Nomadic Delirium Press at Smashwords

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Copyright 2015

All stories and poems are copyrighted in the names of their respective authors

A Product of Nomadic Delirium Press

Aurora, Colorado

http://www.nomadicdeliriumpress.com

Cover art: Winter Unicorns by Vonnie Winslow Crist

Contents

From the Editor

Noisy Night on Planet Purple Plum by Guy Belleranti

Gourmet Dragon by David Kopaska-Merkel

I Need More Space! by Guy Stewart

The Tale of My Talented Tail by Guy Belleranti

The Pioneer by Myke Edwards

Portal by Christina Sng

Trash Monsters by Shelley Chappell

untitled by Lauren McBride

Before the Grave by Chuck West

The Splash by JD DeHart

From the Editor

Once upon a time, not far (enough) away, or long (enough) ago, there was an editor. This editor spent large amounts of time in a space station. The station had the unusual ability to connect to other worlds not only through the use of various space craft, but through shimmering, spidersilk-draped interdimensional portals.

One day, weary of simply glancing into the docking bays of the space ships, and peering uncertainly through the ever-changing portals, the editor decided that she wanted more.

Please, she whispered down the space station’s twisty corridors, and please, she murmured into the cobwebbed portal mouths, can’t I learn more of what happens in the worlds beyond this station? I know I’m too busy here with my writing, and spell-checking, and various slushy, editorial things to actually visit in person, but can’t the people of these worlds send me word of life in such exotic locations?

And, since magic and technology have both wondrous power and slightly warped senses of humor, stories and poems about amazing worlds, people and creatures were sent to the editor. And she, as an editor, read them all, oohed, and ahhhed, and imagined herself as the starring character in each... and then edited the best into easily read issues.

Yes, she was heard to whisper to one of the strange portal spiders, it does mean more writing, spell-checking, and various slushy editorial things... but isn’t it fun?

I hope all of you readers enjoy reading these tales as much as the editor does.

Noisy Night on Planet Purple Plum

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