Spaceports & Spidersilk October 2015

By Marcie Tentchoff

Spaceports & Spidersilk features some of the best science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry for kids of all ages. The October 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: Sep 26, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310734489

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1Spaceports & Spidersilk

October 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: Monster in the Ruin by Richard Fay

Contents

From the Editor

The Old Old House by David Kopaska-Merkel

The Antique Fountain Pen by Evelyn Horan

Dog Talk by Guy Belleranti

Meredith Said by Michelle Ann King

By the Foot of the Bed by Lauren McBride

The Stolen Key by Abigail Singrey

Ice on Pluto by Christina Sng

A New Generation of Heroes by Chris Dean

Show Off by Francis W. Alexander

End of the Line by Lela Marie De La Garza

From the Editor

The worlds are full of stories, waiting to be told. Sometimes those stories are written in cramped handwriting, on crumpled paper. Sometimes they are typed, fast and furious, on computer keyboards. Sometimes they glow down to popcorn munching audiences from big screens in packed movie houses.

And sometimes (I think these may be my favourites) they are murmured, low and eerie, around flickering campfires.

Have you ever heard the one about...?

You know, not far from here....

Once, in a campground just like this....

The tales that follow such openings are spooky, even spine-chilling, and full of twists and surprises. Around campfires, late at night, when our marshmallows are all toasted and eaten, when shadows seem to linger in places they truly shouldn’t be, and the moon hovers up above us, somehow larger and more invasive than it ever is at home, the stories come out to haunt us.

Ghosts. Ghouls. Witches. They lurk in the dark while the storyteller speaks, gesturing with strangely elongated fingers, firelight painting the faces of the listeners into grinning skulls.

Welcome, readers, to the October issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk. Here you will find tales of aliens and far off worlds, of super powers and unusual animals. But, since it is October, you will also find dusty secrets, creaky old houses, and unquiet graves.

And maybe, if you are very quiet, and listen very carefully to the October winds, you may hear the crackle of a campfire, and the dragging thump of the wooden leg worn by the long-dead camper who even now is limping his way towards....

Happy reading!

The Old Old House

by David Kopaska-Merkel

On Halloween the tree limbs creak and grasp,

the walk is long from road