Spaceports & Spidersilk April 2015

By Marcie Tentchoff

Spaceports & Spidersilk features some of the best science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry for kids of all ages. The April 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: Mar 29, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310165382

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1Spaceports & Spidersilk

April 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: Telling Tales by Richard H. Fay

CONTENTS

From the Editor

haiku by -semi

Isaac’s Un-Earthly Birthday Mystery by Guy Belleranti

Kitty Through the Looking Glass by Christina Sng

Unicess by Emily Martha Sorensen

Untitled by Lauren McBride

X = by N. E. Riggs

Frightening Face by Guy Belleranti

The Ghost Garden by James Fitzsimmons

You Are What You Do by Pat Tompkins

Water by: N. L. Sakks

From the Editor

There are times, dear readers, when this space station feels cold and lonely. There are times when even editors find themselves overwhelmed by masses and masses of negative tasks, comments and events. I think that everyone, at times, feels that the world (or constructed habitat in space) is too dark and unhappy a place to wake to each morning, and to go to sleep in each night.

Many of the stories and poems in this issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk focus on unhappy characters who are dealing with problems they don’t know how to solve, and situations they are not sure they even want to deal with. And yet, what makes their stories ones that we enjoy reading, is that none of them, when confronted with what seems like a dead end or an impossible challenge, gives up.

Sometimes bad things can seem less bad if you look at them a different way. Sometimes solutions can be found in odd, out of the way places. And sometimes, when the path ahead of you is blocked, it is time to take a strange and mysterious detour, leading to unexpected adventures.

So, perhaps it is time to explore that odd, unmarked space station corridor, or to poke our noses through the most shadowy, dust-streaked portal. Or perhaps we should just start with sitting down, curling up, and reading about how other people found unusual ways to