Midwinter holidays and chaos – and a cat Escher and Emeline have brought a tree into the house to decorate, and Trefoil the cat must investigate, of course. There’s something not quite right about this
A Science Fiction story of first contact Lieutenant Yusmara is an unconventional starship pilot. She steers by rope and canvas, at least in metaphor. She’s at the helm of the Gemini as something pulls onto
A contagious short story Stories are repeated. They evolve. They are cross-bred and spliced. Ideas take on a life of their own. The oldest legends appear in the latest retellings. One day, by design or
A story of a time traveler and a coroner in Chaucer’s era The corpse showed up with an ax in its head and a map in its pocket. Chaucer had not been born yet, and
A Science Fiction story of the multiverse That place where you tripped? What if a prominent but slightly odd physicist told you that’s where two universes intersect, and you’ve just stumbled into a universe that’s
Follow a thief into a twisty world with a unique magic system. M Resche crossed a bridge and can’t go back. He can’t even find the bridge. Monsieur Resche is an art thief. He has
A Science Fiction Adventure … this story bolstered my faith that someone can still write decent sci-fi. Sellenria brings you back to a timeless quest on an alien world. Archaeologist Stenn Gremm was following the
Time is something that humanity has always known and measured. Early humans marked the days of the year to know when the solstices were, when to plant crops, when to expect the monsoons. But we tend to think of timekeeping as a more modern device. Clocks to tell workers their shift at the factory, or when to expect the next train. (Time zones were the creation of the railroads to allow them to synchronize their schedules.)
Like a Stream Returning Not Again… Our February 20 newsletter is out. Please check it out. Time is something that humanity has always known and measured. Early humans marked the days of the year to know when
This month we are featuring graphic novels, those beautiful volumes that marry artwork with storytelling. The stories can be as deep and as moving as novels that employ only prose, but their form brings both freedom and constraints to tell stories in a different way.