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Eternity

The birth of stars is ours

As is their end, in imploding

Echoing nothing

The expanses of forever are ours

Beyond the places where scientists dream

And the places children visit in their voyages

Of unending creation

The frontiers of always belong to us

We know ‘I will always love you’

‘I will always miss you’

‘I will always…’

Through the magic of language

Of imagination

Of shared humanity and hope

We can be parts of minds that were extinguished

Centuries before we had being

We can create and l...

There is no glass slipper — a blast from the past February 2012

There is no glass slipper — a blast from the past February 2012

*Sorry about this. I crashed at nine last night and slept till almost nine today. Doing better now, but now well enough to write two posts (today is my day at Mad Genius Club, our group writing blog). This one is more about writing, but not really — it is also about life. I keep running across people who confuse story and reality — including our president. The reason he thinks that global warming causes terrorism is that in a sto...

Look Up

Years ago, during the 2004 elections a friend (whom I now fear must be dead, as I haven’t heard from him in years, and he was in his seventies then) cheered me up by telling me that the more noise the left makes, the more they know they’re losing.

(Here I must interject that I was never a particular fan of George Bush. I voted for another guy in the primaries. I voted Libertarian in 2000. However, I am also not mentally handicapped. I could look at Kerry and see what his leadership would get...

To Tower Against The Sky By Christopher M. Chupik

To Tower Against The Sky

By Christopher M. Chupik

(The author wishes to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of Deuce Richardson)

A piece of news was brought to my attention recently:

http://adventuresfantastic.com/new-leigh-brackett-story-announced/

As a big fan of Leigh Brackett, this was great news, but it made me wonder. This year marks the 100th anniversary of her birth, one that has been largely unheralded. The 2015 Hugo Awards failed to acknowledge her centennial, though I suppose tha...

A Blast From The Future

Come closer, children, and spread ears like elephants’.

Let me tell you about the time of the ancestors. You’ve heard all the stories and I know most of you don’t believe them, but listen to me who am old and remember.

Yes, it is true that men could fly through the air like birds, only faster than birds. They could go to the other side of the Earth because they wanted to see what was there.

Yes, it is true that the great sorcerers of that time had created a magic that could project your image...

HEY, Y’ALL, It’s a Promo Post – Free Range Oyster

HEY, Y’ALL, It’s a Promo Post – Free Range Oyster

Rejoice and be very glad, O my people! By the grace and generosity of Our Beloved Hostess – and since enough of y’all sent me stuff to make a decent post of it – the illustrious Promo Post has returned to spread culture, entertainment, imagination, and filthy lucre amongst all the Huns and Hoydens. We’ve new releases this week, including the latest in the Baba Yaga books that you lot inflicted on inspired for TXRed.

If I might share a bit of p...

Restless

We’re now in days of semi-darkness, as light dims towards the solstice, and the country, still asleep, moves restlessly in its bed.

Before there have been moments of turning, of opening our eyes a moment, but the lullaby of the media, of our aristos, of the media-industrial complex dulled us back to sleep again.

For a full few minutes, we sat up, blinking, scared, int he wake of 9/11, but our lullaby-singers convinced us the scare had been a bad dream, conjured up by a bad man, and that all w...

Puppet Masters – A Blast From The Past post FEBRUARY 2013

*Somehow after the last week, this seemed appropriate. And SOMEHOW I scheduled this for six PM. ARGH. Should have checked earlier, sorry.*

Puppet Masters – A Blast From The Past post FEBRUARY 2013

It’s not what we know that kills us… It’s the many things we think we know that just ain’t so – and which might be completely different, in fact.

Take for instance sex – yeah, this early in the day. Let’s have a show of hands. How many of you watched Splendor in the Grass? How many realized it makes...

“We had to destabilize the area, in order to save it.” – William Lehman

“We had to destabilize the area, in order to save it.” – William Lehman

An alleged expert on economics named Thomas Piketty has written a screed on how to combat Daesh… Well, first off, Dr. Piketty is not just an Economist, He seems to be the inheritor of the crown from Keynes on the school of “let’s redistribute the worlds wealth so that everyone has the same outcome” now since Mommy and Daddy where Trotskyites, this is not terribly surprising. In his biography he quickly claims to be “a fir...

Shout, Shout

In the bad old days, which I remember because I’m about half a century old, if the media wanted you to believe something, you would believe it.

Well, most of the time. I was here for the apotheosis of Jimmy Carter’s term, and as hard as he was screaming that all our good days were gone and the American dream was over, people still refused to believe him. Despite the low pall of depression over most people, it didn’t quite take. I think part of the problem, of course, is that he wore those rid...