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DRAGONSHELF AND THE DROVER IV

The slime devil towered over the slim diminutive woman; its roar shivered the metal plates in the walls of the room. She looked up into huge red eyes, showing no fear. Then she dippedher spoon not the shimmering gelatin dessert. The Denebian did not fill her with terror, and she had been brought upContinue reading “DRAGONSHELF AND THE DROVER IV”

FICTION FRIDAY: Reassessment

“What happened?” asked Barbara, looking around the off-white chamber. The tall person in the white robe smiled. “We get a lot of that. You turned left on the corner of State and Delaware just as a driver lost control of his SUV. You were caught between the grille and the window washer’s scaffold.” Continue reading “FICTION FRIDAY: Reassessment”

Halloween-Adjacent?

It is time for my annual column where I go through my inventory and discover I have no Halloween postcards for sale. There ARE Halloween postcards, and postcard mongers who can offer you a fine array, but these folks exist at a higher financial level than I can compete with, and therefore I haveContinue reading “Halloween-Adjacent?”

Dragonshelf and the Drover III

Bott’s head swung left and right as he fingered the grenades on his belt. There was no way to predict where danger waited: overhead, underfoot, forward, behind. He studied what seemed to be holes I the corridor walls. Were they ornaments, part of the structural design, or the aiming mechanisms of traps? LightsContinue reading “Dragonshelf and the Drover III”

Seaside Humor II

As you will recall from our last thrilling episode, we were looking through a portfolio of beach postcards produced in 1948 by Curteich. These accordion-pleated collections were essentially cartoon collections, the postcards printed on both sides of the page (as opposed to other similar portfolios where you could tear out and mail individual cards.) Continue reading “Seaside Humor II”

Seaside Humor

A perennial difficulty with postcards, from the day these started including pictures until today, is that finding a card which would be perfect for Cousin Tabitha is never enough. If the card is really perfect to send Tabitha from your vacation spot it’s good enough to keep, too. One answer to this is toContinue reading “Seaside Humor”

DRAGONSHELF AND THE DROVER II

Bott stepped back onto the bridge and glowered at the delicate instrumentation. It had taken a day just to figure out how to flush the toilet. How long would it take hi to master flying the ship? His eyes passed across seats and control consoles so elegantly incorporated into the walls and floorContinue reading “DRAGONSHELF AND THE DROVER II”

FICTION FRIDAY: Know-It-All

“Now, you’ve got it, right? I want to be transported to 1962. For real, and as myself, knowing what I know. No changes. Me, Durward Bailey as I am in 2024…only give me different clothes.” “Different clothes,” murmured the massive brown caterpillar. Durward strode from his desk to his unmade bed andContinue reading “FICTION FRIDAY: Know-It-All”

Feeding or Fooling?

Have I mentioned—more than thirty times—that this is not a food blog? But maybe what I am writing about here doesn’t count. Folks on the Interwebs have differing opinions on this (as with everything else) so let’s not wait around. The appearance on the market of Coca-Cola flavored Oreos (good stuff) and OscarContinue reading “Feeding or Fooling?”

DRAGONSHELF AND THE DROVER I

The curve of space, vast and beautiful beyond comprehension, was no more beautiful than the Drover. Immense for a ship as the immeasurable parabola was for the universe, she was the product of three generations of engineers trained from birth for her construction. The Drover had been intended for a century and more toContinue reading “DRAGONSHELF AND THE DROVER I”