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Author: Shannon Richards

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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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  • An image of a total solar eclipse with the corona flaring brightly
    Poetry

    Eclipse

    By Shannon Richards
    April 29, 2024
    Ever reducing crescents Carved by a shadow of curiosity As we drift into the penumbra Unaccustomed to the luminosity, The brightly glowing ring, Feather ...
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  • An abstract sculpture in white of portions of two faces in a romantic pose. A frontal view of the closed right eye, nose, lips, chin, and left cheek surrounded by a swoop suggesting the shape of hair is being embraced by a face in profile whose hand can be seen wrapping around the missing right cheek. A kiss seems imminent.
    PoetryRomance

    Will

    By Shannon Richards
    April 15, 2024
    You draw my will out Through my skin. It sits, Dewy opals, On the curves of my neck Until you scoop it away With ...
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  • Snow begins to accumulate on a withering pink rose left to wilt on the bush.
    Poetry

    Seeds of Doubt

    By Shannon Richards
    April 1, 2024
    Doubt starts to grow when the first wind blows through Time occupies the dark plane all alone Left with the thought that there’s nothing ...
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  • Seen from underneath, a row of light brown mushrooms grows out of the side of a tree trunk covered with moss even as it stretches into the sky.
    TrioletPoetry

    Cycle of Rebirth

    By Shannon Richards
    March 18, 2024
    Spring forth in the eternal cycle of rebirth The spinning Wheel turns as it passes on its way. Feel the heart-beat rhythm of the ...
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  • Long serpentine tails covered in metallic rainbow scales curve around and end in triangular flanges.
    PoetryFantasy

    Dragons Have Arrived

    By Shannon Richards
    March 4, 2024
    I think you’re a dreamer like me, And dragons fly thick through the air. Come inside; I’ve prepared safety Or they’ll drag you off ...
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  • A selection of Tarot cards fading from the Tower, Hierophant, and Six of Swords on the left, the Wheel of Fortune in the center, and the Ten of Cups, Lovers, and the World on the right.
    PoetrySestina

    Ten of Cups

    By Shannon Richards
    February 19, 2024
    I thought I had the Ten of Cups And wouldn’t be alone, I read a family in my cards Together we’d build a world ...
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    The World We Leave Them

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