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  • Underneath the Surface of Optimism

  • Climbing the Stairs

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  • Dogs

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  • Of Lockets and Pomegranates: Chapter 9

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  • Of Lockets and Pomegranates: Chapter 8

Author: Shannon Richards

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  • Christmas decorations light up a yard at night. Two wire snowmen wear top hats and red scarves with red, blue, and green open-designed Christmas trees behind them.
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    Christmas Visit

    By Shannon Richards
    December 23, 2024
    The crash is so loud; I hear it above the buzz of my kids’ electric toothbrushes.  My five-year-old Sasha gasps, sending white spittle flying ...
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  • A planet banded by swirling blue and white clouds is encircled by a vast ring system and orbited by a small, golden moon
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    Ularma’s Rings

    By Shannon Richards
    December 9, 2024
    Of course, it produced no change in temperature, but when the dust from the ring system pelted Ularma’s Orbital Station, it sounded like a ...
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  • A skull sits on a table surrounded by glass potion bottles and red candles lit with an eerie glow
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    Curse of the Topaz

    By Shannon Richards
    November 11, 2024
    A skeleton dances when the front door swings open, drawing my latest customer inside. I go overboard decorating, but this season is the bread ...
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  • A huge, blue, segmented alien with a long, lanky body and large eyes hovers against a starry background
    FictionAction & AdventureSpeculative Fiction

    Star Grazers: Return

    By Shannon Richards
    October 14, 2024
    Peris and Alfie sat facing each other on Nor’s ribs, their feet dangling. They continued to orbit the yellow star while Nor lapped at ...
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  • A red sun flares fiercely, sending off bits of red-hot stellar matter across a backdrop of dark space set with blue nebulous gasses
    Action & AdventureSpeculative FictionFiction

    Star Grazers: Defiance

    By Shannon Richards
    September 16, 2024
    Peris couldn’t remember feeling more relieved than she did when Nor disengaged from the rusty hatch and they put the whole dirty-minded, overheated space ...
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  • Stars trails along the periphery blur against the dark background of deep space creating a cosmic tunnel to travel through.
    Action & AdventureSpeculative FictionFiction

    Star Grazers: Vega

    By Shannon Richards
    August 5, 2024
    They could always feel the difference at the heliopause where they stopped riding the system’s solar winds and Nor could stretch herself out and ...
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  • Sheer rocky cliff faces rise up and pierce the night sky. Overhead, a bright band of stars splits the sky.
    FictionAction & AdventureSpeculative Fiction

    Star Grazers: Ascension

    By Shannon Richards
    July 8, 2024
    Peris stood on the brink of the cliff and reached out with her mind while she held her lightstick over the chasm. Stray orange pebbles skittered into ...
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  • Ripe and tempting blackberries grow in a cluster against a background of out-of-focus green leaves. Seven large, ripe berries top their stems, with two unripe berries tucked in as well as three empty stems whose berries seem to have already been plucked.
    Poetry

    Blackberry Haiku

    By Shannon Richards
    June 10, 2024
    How sweet to taste of Accidental blackberries From vines brought by birds!
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  • A black and white image of a boy with shaggy hair and glasses. His eye-brows are arched and he's gazing intently at the camera and half-smiling.
    Poetry

    Ten Years Old

    By Shannon Richards
    May 27, 2024
    He’s ten years old so: He knows everything, Aliens are real and Bigfoot is not, But to life outside of video games He applies ...
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  • The surface of the moon looms in the lower right quadrant, dominated by two large craters and pockmarked by many smaller ones
    FictionScience Fiction

    New Ride

    By Shannon Richards
    May 13, 2024
    I pull the lever as the whistle blows, and the press comes down. Low gravity makes the seal on the components produced on the ...
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