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Author: Shannon Richards

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  • Colorful cartoon stars form the number 42 across a celestial background.
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    Ultimate Birthday

    By Shannon Richards
    August 11, 2025
    Round the sun I go, turning forty-two, Ultimate Answer to life, the universe, And everything echoing through and through, Withholding its wisdom like it’s ...
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    Love and War

    By Shannon Richards
    July 14, 2025
    Luna fussed with her hair for the hundredth time. The pair of diminutive silver barrettes she’d snagged at Al’s Emporium functioned to hold the ...
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    Cold, Hard Facts

    By Shannon Richards
    June 9, 2025
    Luna paced the deck in her quarters until the hunter-green carpet turned a dusty shade of moss. The argument with Astor flickered in her ...
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    Race Toward the Truth

    By Shannon Richards
    May 19, 2025
    Despite the look on Wesic’s face when Luna tossed his ship, building a case against him would be harder than making him jump at ...
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    The Search for Evidence

    By Shannon Richards
    April 14, 2025
    Even with Astor’s head on her shoulder and her fingers tracing post-coital patterns along her side, Luna couldn’t get Dunnagan’s stupid expression out of ...
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    The Line of Duty

    By Shannon Richards
    March 10, 2025
    Memories of the previous night danced across Luna’s mind and settled in the pit of her stomach. She discovered from the station logs that ...
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    Love at First Sight

    By Shannon Richards
    February 3, 2025
    The hard blow fell across her back from behind. “Get fucked by a Beluvian tocar!” Luna swore at the offender. Her electric orange outposter splashed down her ...
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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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    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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