Spaceports & Spidersilk January 2017

By Marcie Tentchoff

Spaceports & Spidersilk features some of the best science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry for kids of all ages. The January 2017 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: Dec 31, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370929917

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1Spaceports & Spidersilk

January 2017

Edited by Marcie Tentchoff

Published by Nomadic Delirium Press at Smashwords

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Copyright 2017

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

A Product of Nomadic Delirium Press

Aurora, Colorado

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Cover Art: A Glass Darkly by Ron Sanders

CONTENTS

From the Editor

There Are Witches on This Planet By J.G. Formato

Believe by Francis W. Alexander

The Mountebank by Sara Codair

Distillates of myths (Hexagram 25``) by M. C. Childs

Ooloo Takes a Bath by Guy Belleranti

untitled by Lauren McBride

Valentine’s Oops by Emily Martha Sorensen

Why Mom Keeps the Mirrors Covered by Terrie Leigh Relf

The Dancer by Chris Dean

untitled by M. J. Andrew

From the Editor

Welcome, readers, to the January 2017 issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk. I am writing this "editorial during the cold holiday season, and between bouts of editing, writing, and teaching I have spent the last few weeks trying to decorate.

I am not very good at decorating. I am not crafty, nor am I visually oriented. As my grandmother used to say, Marcie, your taste is all in your mouth. Of course, most of her wise (and mocking) sayings originated in various other languages, and something might have been lost in translation.

Still, there is one holiday decorating craft that I learned when I was very young, and I tend to make use of it every winter.

I can cut out a really good snowflake.

I love to take pure white paper and fold and cut it into a perfect square, then fold again, and again, and again, and cut, till I’m left with a star, then cut, and turn, and cut and cut and cut... until a snowflake