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microcosms

  1. microcosms interview: sixquestionsfor.blogspot.com/2011/11/six-qu…
  2. As the Colonial Space Age collapsed behind us, we limped back to Earth to find the subletting ETs had changed the locks.//EDC
  3. Nessie surfaced, sniffed, found the rising CO2 levels almost right, and sank back into the Scottish lake to tell the others.//EDC
  4. Dr. Berren, on a whim, read all his junk mail one day and decoded the desperate message from Reality #2.//EDC
  5. Eric Del Carlo’s work has appeared in Strange Horizons and Asimov's. Contact him at ericdelcarlo.com to find out his favorite color.
  6. Summer Day 2://The asphalt’s hot, the air silky. Ma holds a shotgun ready in case They come. The toddler draws only with the red chalk.//AGC
  7. They dressed her as the beast demanded - in white lace with flowers. “Like a christening,” they whispered. It was a baptism of fire.//AGC
  8. Bugs://The bugs were delicious. “Tastes like chicken.” But the half-digested larva consumed us, inside to out. Turnabout’s fair play.//AGC
  9. A.G. Carpenter writes speculative fiction of, and for, all sorts. She blogs at agcarpenter.blogspot.com and Twits @Aggy_C
  10. Love at first sight dissolves into second thoughts. Second sight foretells triangles, squaring off against each other.//SDR
  11. The wind cut furrows in the sand, blasting away the surface until the bones beneath were exposed, were dug free, and were sent dancing.//SDR
  12. The silent letters band together to form words unspeakable, the mimes getting the last smile.//SDR
  13. Over five hundred of Stephen's stories and poems have appeared in more than two hundred publications. More at: stephendrogers.com
  14. With much focus on NaNoWriMo in Nov., I'm going to do something different and post fiction this month.
  15. the ghost mother hums Halloween hymns/giving birth to skinless dream creatures/trick or treat//LA
  16. don’t fall for that grave yard love/you'll lose your heart/once and forever//LA
  17. your words of love/taste sweeter served with thyme/and your cheating heart//LA
  18. Linda Addison (@nytebird45) is growing new wings (lindaaddisonpoet.com)
  19. patient black widow / trapper waits in ragged web / straying men entrapped //Richard H. Fay
  20. clattering hooves / slate shingles rattle / rooftop imps dance // Richard H. Fay (1st published in Aphelion)