Spaceports & Spidersilk April 2018

By Marcie Tentchoff

Spaceports & Spidersilk features some of the best science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry for kids of all ages. The April 2018 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.

This issue features fiction by: Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Melanie Smith, Tyler Omichinski, Eamonn Murphy, and Maureen Bowden. It also features poetry by: John Grey, Christina Sng, Rebecca Herzog, Pamela Love, and Tamara K. Walker.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nomadic Delirium Press
• Release date: Mar 31, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370779673

Book preview

1Spaceports & Spidersilk

April 2018

Edited by Marcie Tentchoff

Published by Nomadic Delirium Press at Smashwords

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Copyright 2018

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: Dragon’s Dream by Rhaega Ailani Art

Contents

From the Editor

Dragonya by Jessica Marie Baumgartner

Cave Creature by John Grey

After Pryanzi by Melanie Smith

Sunshine by Christina Sng

Whence Went the Wizards by Tyler Omichinski

Baba Yaga by Rebecca Herzog

Sneezy and the Pre-Cog by Eamonn Murphy

Time of Giants by Pamela Love

Symbiosis by Maureen Bowden

Untitled by Tamara K. Walker

From the Editor

Welcome, readers, to the April issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk. Once again, it is time (well, really past time, since I always leave this part until the last possible minute) for me to say something witty and imaginative about the stories and poems collected here, and through that, something witty and imaginative about reading, and about life in general.

Hrmph. Forget that!

Instead, since some of you may be reading this and thinking that it might be interesting to be an editor someday, or are just wondering what an editor actually does, I’m going to tell you all just a little bit about how I put together an issue of S&S.

Submissions (stories, poetry and artwork) are sent to me from various far off places. Of course, I live in a rather isolated area, so most places seem far off, but really, I seem to be receiving work from farther and farther away for each issue. This makes me happy.

I read through every submission, most multiple times. Some I can easily reject as all wrong for S&S. Then there are the tougher submissions, the ones where I have to decide whether or not they quite follow our guidelines. Would our readers like them? Are they really science fiction or fantasy, or do they negate all the magic with a final but it was all just a dream ending? Are they too similar to something else we used recently?

When I do find something that seems perfect, and accept it, as an editor I start piecing together the issue like a puzzle. I need to try to balance stories with poetry, science fiction with fantasy, humor/light pieces with dark/sad pieces. Because an issue is not a boxed jigsaw puzzle with pieces created to fit together just so, I’m not sure I’ve ever gotten things just right. Still, my hope is that I always end up with something that the readers enjoy.

After that there is formatting (laying out everything on the page so that everything looks good and is readable), adding in the information about the poets and authors, and then line-editing (is the spelling and grammar