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Author: Shannon Richards

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  • A huge, blue, segmented alien with a long, lanky body and large eyes hovers against a starry background
    Action & AdventureSpeculative FictionFiction

    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.
    FictionAction & AdventureSpeculative Fiction

    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.
    Action & AdventureSpeculative FictionFiction

    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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