I love staring at my mother’s butt. Iona is jealous of parades, like the planet unfurls before us god-beings walking down the middle of the street, then avalanches to bury the spectators cheering from the sidelines.    That’s only something you can believe from the crowd. The domos squash any hope of sightseeing with their mechanical insistence on procession. It’s ...

Shooting stars burn bright Setting fire to the night Glowing galaxy Sturgeon Moon on high Leonid-magic gilt sky Quick now—make your wish! Editor: Rockebah Charles-Stewart 

Xi-3’s twelve moons flung strings of effervescent light into the basalt canyons below. The largest, lost in a perpetual eclipse, dominated the northern sky as a black void surrounded by red flame. The other eleven orbited in their own unique ways. Zhim and Graff-12 vanished for days at a time. The ‘Eight Sisters’ inched across ...

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 massive thunderstorm and made Corry long to curl up in a warm blanket. The sand formed tiny rivulets on the domed window that comprised the ceiling and upper wall, working in ...

They say that space is the final frontier, but are they right? Sure, Adventures await in the universe’s vastness, but is it worth it? Packing what little items you have into a case and stepping aboard the unyielding metal box that is the spaceship. It is knowing that no matter what, the risk you take ...

Adrift in the cold empty of space, white dots twinkling amidst the black, a ship floated as a carcass would down river. Its single passenger inside shivered in the growing chill, a blanket wrapped about her person. She gazed through the front shield as her teeth chattered. Pain soaked in her veins, and even the ...