Spaceports & Spidersilk July 2019

By Marcie Tentchoff

Entertain your inner child or your real child with the latest issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk. Explore places you could never imagine in the July 2019 issue, and it's only $1.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nomadic Delirium Press
• Release date: Jun 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463217139

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1Spaceports & Spidersilk

July 2019

Edited by Marcie Tentchoff

Published by Nomadic Delirium Press at Smashwords

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Copyright 2019

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

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Cover Art: Visiting the Pool of the Piptrixons by Richard Fay

CONTENTS

From the Editor

Pink, with Feathers by Lauren McBride

Deflated by Jessica Nelson-Tyers

Impressions by Daniel C. Smith

The Beach or the Stars? by Anne E. Johnson

A Dragon Took the Subway by Pamela Love

The Schnoz by Adam Gaylord

Cockroach School by John Grey

An Adult on Mars by Elliott Novak

Untitled by Lisa Timpf

Elizabeth and the Popcorn Tree by Chad Barger

From the Editor

Here at Spaceports & Spidersilk we have always linked our issues to the turning of the seasons. That may seem strange for a publication that often comes to you from inside a space station, where leaves never turn color or fall, where the only frost and snow comes from the occasional coolant leak, and where the only new life comes in through the docking bays or through one of our special portals.

But each of the worlds outside of this station have seasons, however extreme or delicate. Here all may seem static and fixed, but elsewhere... things change.

In my own home world, summer is just starting. At one time in my past, in the area where I grew up that would have meant a mixture of hard rains and occasional sunny days, leading into a few dry, warm weeks.

But things change.

Now weeks have already passed with no sign of precipitation, campfire bans started up months earlier than their normal, short August appearance, and wildfires burn through all the greenery and wild areas that we once treasured. Come winter, snows that once thrilled school children a day or two each year now linger for long weeks, and reappear over and over from November through March.

Things change. And we, as people, must be prepared for change, whether to fight it or to greet