CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

This week’s verse moves from  a poem about city traffic to a science fiction verse about colony oversight. It is taken from 365 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2014. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Taking Care They live within the star-filled dark, fearing neither night nor day. They sing their songs in voices stark, teaching us their way. Teaching us their way, as tirelessly as suns, repeating every lesson until they know we’ve learned. Until they know we’ve learned just how to live and give the planet care, so that long upon this world we’ll dwell, beneath their unforgiving stare. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can find the first two poetry collections at the links below - although there are plans to reissue them with more genre-appropriate co...

This week’s short story takes us from the fantasy world of Tallameera and two siblings discovering the power of magic to the creation story for a science-fiction vigilante. Welcome to Melerom Leads the Dance . When Melerom escapes the aftermath of his people’s massacre of the humans on Jehornak, he sets himself up as a wealthy wanderer on the Odyssey luxury liners, and acquires the one thing every gentleman needs—a valet—but when his valet begins showing unusually perceptive spurts of initiative, Melerom realises the man is not everything he seems. The only question is, can the man be trusted to help him survive multi-billionaire, Frederico Coleman’s, next party, or betray him? Melerom Leads the Dance is available as a stand-alone short story at the following links: books2read.com/u/bMG9a7 . 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?

LAST WEEK, Tiger revealed he had barely escaped another alien incursion with his life. This week, Simone lets him know how much trouble he's in with FedExplore, and says she is very worried for her parents. Chapter 8 Excerpt – Catastrophes Dear Tiger, Glad you are okay—and safe. So glad you are safe. Odyssey made it onto Deskeden with GalPol. Said they had an anonymous tip-off that there’d been a catastrophic event on the colony there, and had the FedExplore indictment overturned. And a catastrophic event would have been the only way they could have overturned it. They passed on the tip, and GalPol insisted on an investigation, and what they found there put FedExplore in a lot of hot water. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, un...