Spaceports & Spidersilk April 2017

By Marcie Tentchoff

Spaceports & Spidersilk features some of the best science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry for kids of all ages. The April 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: Mar 31, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370277766

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1Spaceports & Spidersilk

April 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

http://www.nomadicdeliriumpress.com

Cover Art: Space Exploration by Jane Baker

CONTENTS

From the Editor

Welcome! by Raven Howell

The Five-Star Underwear by Rebecca Linam

The Gnome and his Dog by Alicia Cole

All the World’s A Stage by Michael S. Collins

untitled by Lauren McBride

Cydonia-based Egg for Rent (short term) by Russell Hemmell

Jenna’s Little Brother by WC Roberts

Gravel beneath Pounding Feet by Alexander D Jones

Teamwork by Guy Belleranti

Nica and the Whales by Anne E. Johnson

From the Editor

What if? Every writer of science fiction and fantasy knows that those words are the start of every story idea. What if an alien came to Earth and needed the help of children to contact his home planet? What if an evil witch decided to raise a child confined to a tall tower, and used her long hair as a ladder? What if good and evil were just different sides of the same power, or... erm... force? What if there was a magic ring that could give a dark lord ultimate power, and which therefore had to be destroyed?

From the reader’s point of view, though, the question is a bit different. When I read I often find myself thinking no, don’t do that! as I follow the actions of the stories’ characters. Don’t go into the basement! or don’t try to lie to the vampire! And that leads me to the follow up thought. What would have happened?

What would have happened if Harry decided to stay in the mundane world instead of risking the strangeness of wizard school? What would have happened if Katniss had decided that discretion was the better part of valour, and hadn’t volunteered to take her sister’s place? What would