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My haiku goes to Mars, you get a FREE eBook!

MAVEN SpacecraftI've entered a contest that could result in one of my haiku being sent to Mars on NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. It just needs to get enough votes to place in the top three (3) to be included.

To read my haiku entry and to vote for it, go here:

http://lasp.colorado.edu/maven/goingtomars/entry/?10589

Voting is open between July 15th and July 29th, 2013.
My haiku goes to Mars, you get a FREE eBook!
As an incentive to get your vote, and for you to spread the word to get others to vote for my entry, I've decided to write an ‘autobiographical’ account of my adventures on Mars if my entry winds up hitching a ride on the MAVEN spacecraft. This story will be made available for all humans to download in their favorite eBook format (ePub, Mobi, & PDF). The story will be in the bizarro fiction category, of novelette length (between 7,500 & 17,500 words), and will have a cover and interior illustrations designed by yours truly.

When will the eBook be available for download?

If my haiku rides aboard MAVEN, the eBook will be available for download on the day MAVEN is launched into space. This has been scheduled to occur sometime between November 18th and December 7th of 2013.

How will you know when the eBook is published?

I'll announce it here. If you'd like to get an e-mail letting you know it's available, subscribe to this blog via e-mail and you'll get a notification.

Read more about MAVEN’s mission to Mars.

Click the link below to vote for my entry in the contest:

http://lasp.colorado.edu/maven/goingtomars/entry/?10589

Read a story about a guy with this face getting into trouble on the planet Mars!
Vote Now!

the cask of amontillado

one glass of sherry
will make him drunk and afraid
of black cats and birds

cyr@n0 d3 b3rg3r@c

his poetry app
spits out endless love poems
but the girls won't bite

the dowager

he left her his debts
popping like dandelions
and an empty house
dirty dishes in the sink
but that mess was always hers

newsprint scars

gas station restrooms
were the scariest places
when I was a kid

subscription to prescriptionland

if feeling like this
means that I’m mentally ill
then I’m okay with it

signs in first grade

this dog had fingers
hands like a people person
clutching an Uzi

sunlight through talcum powder clouds

the water is warm
he drinks it with toast gone cold
stares out the window

a prayer begins

the world’s all filled up
with lonely little robots
made of meat and bone

free is not always good

awful collection
99 Horrible Things!
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