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Wednesday’s Verse—Calls the Waterfall

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This week’s verse moves from a a science fiction piece of blank verse about someone in the vanguard of a world-wide evacuation to a verse that plays with repetition and rhyme spoken by a person listening to a waterfall. It is taken from 366 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2016. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Calls the Waterfall I stood upon a mountain tall and watched the way the water called. I watched the way the water called; I listened to the waterfall. The water fell, so clear and bright, reflecting gem drops in dawn light. Reflecting gem drops in dawn light, the water called, the water bright. Bright it danced upon the dawn, as dawn’s bright colours lit its fall. As dawn’s bright colours lit its fall, I listened to the water call. I listened to the water call, in the brightness of the dawn. Bright sun colours lit its fall, as I stood upon the mountai

Tuesday’s Short—Fate in the Sun

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This week’s short story takes us from shapeshifters on the moon to a distant world where creatures come through interdimensional rifts to slaughter. Welcome to Fate in the Sun. On Canon V, the colonists live underground—those that can, anyway. Those that are born unable, I help guide to the surface, and then I try to warn them of the creatures that come from beyond the rifts. Some listen. Most run away screaming. With the creatures coming more often, now, the last thing any of us expected was for corporate intervention. Now, we just have to work out if they’re offering a deal worth taking, or if we’d be better off in the caves. Fate in the Sun is available as a stand-alone short story at the following links: books2read.com/u/4DoZee . You can also find Kristine Kathryn Rusch's latest free short story over on her blog: kriswrites.com . Why don't you go and check it out?  

Carlie’s Chapter 7—Dear Tiger: I Don’t Think I’m Human Anymore

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LAST WEEK, Tobias confirmed that what was happening wasn't good. This week, we find Simone is not reassured. Chapter 7 Excerpt – NOT Reassuring! Dear Tobes Thanks for your letter. If that was your way of being reassuring, it didn’t work. You, Mister, need to work on your bedside manner! Tell me how your folks are doing, and more about Kiara and Del. They sound like nice kids. I’m not in a bubble any more. The docs say I’m not infectious. They also say mum and dad are away doing research, but they won’t tell me where. Keep an eye out for them on Deskeden, because I’m having one of your bad feelings. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The complete series is available as short, individual ebooks, and will become available as an omnibus, later this year. In the meantime, you can find them on this blog, until one week after the last chapter in the last book of the series has been posted, at which point this series will