DSP Issue 2 // Rambling Through
Micro-fiction, poetry, and musings from among the stars.
Dear reader,
For the foreseeable future, I’ll be sending out a newsletter every month, so you can get a monthly sci-fi fix! Sound good? Make sure to subscribe!
Here’s my answer. I love the imaginative concepts of what the future could hold, and there’s something so beautiful about the mysteries of space.
This Transmission Contains
My writing update
What I’m reading
Some short fiction
Some celestial poetry
Interesting things worth consuming
Writerly Segment
I'm working on my re-launch plan for Mara’s Awakening and hoping to decide on a launch date soon. I’ll let you know when that is!
I’ve got one final round of edits to do then I’ll be done! I can’t wait to share the improved version with you.
Also been trying to form an outline for my next standalone novella. I’ve got a principal idea I’m happy with, just have to work out the finer details!
Fiction Segment
6 Story
She’s never seen Earth. Nobody had.
50 Microfiction
Humanity discovered their planet was dying. They sought other planets that could be terraformed and sustain life. The most viable option was a planet orbiting a red dwarf star.
The planet was barren, with no atmosphere and no water. What did they name it? Aptly, Second Chance.
100 Flash
Floating above the blue-green planet, he took it all in. He was so far from his home planet, a dry, red desert. He had seen nothing like this before - swirling blues and greens, vast oceans, and gigantic mountains.
It intrigued him, so he landed on the city's outskirts. The city looked like his home planet. Although it was barren and dry, everything else about it was so different. But he'd be happier living here.
What they say is true - the grass is always greener on the other side.
Literary Segment
What I’m Reading
I finished reading Breakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, and The Galaxy & The Ground Within By Becky Chambers. Fantastic, unique books!
What I’m Eyeing
I’m desperate to read The MurderBot series by Martha Wells, and To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara looks fascinating.
Poetry Segment
Interstellar Haiku
It's so bittersweet
Lonely is this beacon
But i'm home, free
Galactic Verse
We are the generation of space
Our destiny lies beyond the stars
We will travel to the end of time
And explore the universe's mysteries
Our courage and determination will never falter
For we are the generation of space
Unlike our countless forebears,
We never give up
Because the fate of our people
Depends on it
Recommendation Roundup
Poetic Ponderings // “Sci-Fi” By Tracy K. Smith
Art Archive // Scifi Art By Michael Black Kometa
Scifi Stories // Where Nature & Sci-Fi Meet - An Artist’s Worlds
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See you in the stars.
Kind regards,
Leo Flynn