Sapphire Rain (from Red Planet Spring 2021)
So apparently Red Planet magazine is gone. While I know they closed their doors, now their twitter feed, their website, everything. *snert* Well, nonetheless, here is the piece I had in what turned out to be their last issue back in Spring of this year. IF anyone out there managed to grab a screen shot of my actual piece LMK pretty please? I seem to have lost the folder with all of that in it. :( Sapphire Rain Wake me up my littlest pod-pea Stir me from this waking artificial dream of alien minds not wrapped in writhing, hungry vines but instead trapped in strange idle binds. Bodies that do not swim or hover but drown and lumber, they sneeze not shudder in their thin atmospheres where, hiding in their homes, they fear the sound of the coming, palid thunder. On savage warming planets where the natives Suck the marrow from their cradled Infants. Living amidst ruined days, supping soup of their bones and dolin...