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Snow Sculptures — Poem of the Day — February 5, 2022

Snow Sculptures

chilled air covering
Martian dunes
snow sculptures

Written by Roxanne Barbour.
Previously published on Medium.

This is a scifaiku (a speculative haiku).

 

 

Humans Flee – Poem of the Day – February 4, 2022

Humans Flee

humans flee
submerged
alien bodies

Written by Roxanne Barbour, January 2022
(previously published on Medium)
(a scifaiku, speculative haiku)

 

Finding Writing Ideas From Quotations – November 4, 2021

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: ‘What if?’ and ‘What next?’ (A third question, ”What now?’, is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so, but it’s more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, ‘What if ‘X’ happened?’ That’s how you start.

Tom Clancy

Martian Sylvestine Amera is no novice when it comes to managing a hotel. Syl is of an Earth background, while her fiancee, Dedare Sath, is from the planet Irion. He entices her to the planet Particle where a new world for Syl and a newly acquired alien hotel awaits. Dedare hopes Syl will agree to manage the Sath-Ooby Golden hotel.

What if this adventure is far too alien for Syl?

Finding Writing Ideas from Quotations – November 2, 2021

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Finding Writing Ideas from Quotations – October 28, 2021

A DRUID’S PRAYER

Each morning I sing the sun awake,
Each night I greet the moon’s soft light.
The trees are the pillars of my church,
The stones my pews and pious alter.

I live as one with all the realms:
May the earth always support my body,
May the sky ever stretch above my head,
May the waters ever surround my spirit.

May I know the shape of the cosmos
Until my dying day.
And may I join it joyfully
When that day has come.

by Rev. Michael J. Dangler

Finding Writing Ideas in Quotations – October 23, 2021

Finding Writing Ideas from Quotations: October 21, 2021

Those who dare are often disappointed, sometimes crushed. But without challenge, life withers. Icarus dared to accept the challenge. So do we, his offspring.

Ben Bova

Quotation – October 17, 2021

Quotation – October 10, 2021

Quotation – October 10, 2021

When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.

Neil Gaiman

Quotation – September 23, 2021

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
Maya Angelou