Spaceports & Spidersilk October 2016

By Marcie Tentchoff

Spaceports & Spidersilk features some of the best science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry for kids of all ages. The October 2016 issue will take you to places you might never have imagined. It will appeal to your inner child, and hopefully take you back to the places you loved as a child...and if you’re still a child, it will open your imagination to all kinds of new worlds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nomadic Delirium Press
• Release date: Sep 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370418732

Book preview

1Spaceports & Spidersilk

October 2016

Edited by Marcie Tentchoff

Published by Nomadic Delirium Press at Smashwords

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Copyright 2016

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: Autumn Gremlers by Vonnie Winslow Crist

Contents

From the Editor

Come Reddened, Sunset Skies by Lauren McBride

Gateway to the Stairs by Jason Lairamore

Ghost Problem by Guy Belleranti

Thimble Care Splatter by E. M. Eastick

An Inopportune Turn by Christina Sng

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! by Scott Rhoades

The Order of Things by Ariel Stone

Black Dog by Richard Stevenson

After SunsSet by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff

From the Editor

Welcome, one and all, to the Spaceports & Spidersilk Chamber of Horrors!

Wait, you thought you were simply about to read an issue of a magazine, full of stories, poems, and otherworldly adventure?

Oh, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I’m afraid there has been a slight... misunderstanding.

Yes, there are stories here for your perusal, and poems that will sing in your ears as you read them, and yes, action and adventure do lurk here, around every corner.

But... don’t expect to simply read. Don’t expect to pass through this twisted fun house swiftly, safe in the knowledge that nothing is real, nothing can truly reach you where you are, warm and comfortable in your homes.

Stories--good stories--and all the creatures and terrors that creep within them, have a way of working themselves deep into the crevices of your mind. They wait there, for the lights to go out, for dark October nights full of wood smoke and the distant sound of wings.

And they haunt you.

Come Reddened, Sunset Skies

by Lauren McBride

Black cape swirls

to hide the wearer.

Flash of fangs-

beware the bearer.

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About the Poet: : Lauren McBride finds inspiration in faith, nature, science and membership in the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA). Nominated for the SFPA's Rhysling and Dwarf Stars Awards, her work can be found recently in Frostfire Worlds, Songs of Eretz, Star*Line and elsewhere. She shares a love of laughter and the ocean with her husband and two grown children.

Gateway to the Stairs

by Jason Lairamore

Ten year old Stanley Burdin shook his head to get his hair out of his eyes so he could finish solving the problem Grandmother Jones had given him. The class was Space and Rocket Technology, his most favorite subject.

377 seconds, he announced, looking up.

Grandmother Jones stared out the window to the rolling countryside surrounding their cabin. She touched