Spaceports & Spidersilk: October 2017

By Marcie Tentchoff

Spaceports & Spidersilk features some of the best science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry for kids of all ages. The October 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: Sep 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370121809

Book preview

1Spaceports & Spidersilk

October 2017

Edited by Marcie Tentchoff

Published by Nomadic Delirium Press at Smashwords

This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any informational storage and retrieval system, without the written consent of the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passes in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, broadcast, etc.

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: Masks by Rhaega Ailani

Contents

From the Editor

Autumn Allergy by Kimberly Y. Choi

Sneezy and the Government Man by Eamonn Murphy

Our Standing by John Grey

Jazmine Meets A Monster by Pablo E. Vizcarrondo III

untitled by Lisa Timpf

Assault on the Stars by Janeen Mathisen

Waking to a Crash by Lauren McBride

The Orange Table in the Corner by Joyce Frohn

Quantum Santa by Francis W. Alexander

Nia and the Stone Birds by Margaret R. Zotkiewicz

From the Editor

Welcome, readers, to the October issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk.

My favorite holiday falls in October. Halloween is the one day of the year when it is socially acceptable to transform oneself, in appearance at least, into another person, being, or creature. Halloween is a wonderful day to try on an entirely different self.

To wear a mask.

Of course, there are some people (and beings, and creatures) who are always wearing masks, appearing to be one thing, while in reality being something very different.

In this issue of S&S you will find many tales of beings who are wearing masks, either of their own making, or of others’ perception. Good may appear to be evil, sentient may appear to be inanimate, technology may appear to be magic.

And so, readers, do not be fooled by appearances.

Except, of course, on Halloween, when a mask may actually be be far more than a mask, and the beings, creatures, and people you encounter, may... just may... be exactly what they seem.

Happy reading!

Autumn Allergy

by Kimberly Y. Choi

In the breeze that autumn brings

Fragrance of decaying things

Naughty winds arrive to play

Pranks on noses at start of day.

It’s the magic that the sylphs make,

Pollen in my breathly intake

Hides when summer storms start trickling,

Then jumps out to do some tickling.

***************

About the Poet: Kimberly Y. Choi's short fiction and poetry have appeared in several publications, including previously in Spaceports & Spidersilk. She lives in the United States and her favorite punctuation is the dash—

Sneezy and the Government Man

by Eamonn Murphy

The prison gate clanged shut behind him and Red McCallister stepped out into the sunshine.

He’d been put in jail for his part in trying to hijack The Winter Star colony ship and divert it to a more pleasant planet