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How to Speak to Pluto

If he should question you,answer without trepidation: Pluto does not gossip.He will keep his promises. His views on the Kuiper Beltare eccentric, but worth hearing. If he should question you,answer...

How to Speak to Pluto

If he should question you,answer without trepidation: Pluto does not gossip.He will keep his promises. His views on the Kuiper Beltare eccentric, but worth hearing. If he should question you,answer...

How to Fly by Neptune

Remember the gravity of his crime,why the Sun sentenced himto this far orbit. Do not listen to his pleas.Stop up your ears.Be resolute. Do not descend close enoughto sense the...

How to Fly by Neptune

Remember the gravity of his crime,why the Sun sentenced himto this far orbit. Do not listen to his pleas.Stop up your ears.Be resolute. Do not descend close enoughto sense the...

How to Paint Mercury

Permit him to pirouette,spinning as you paint. Capture his contrasts.Hammered heat, hidden ice. Sketch his expression,capricious, captivating. Do not erase his scars,the craters of a survivor. Remembering his history,be patient...

How to Paint Mercury

Permit him to pirouette,spinning as you paint. Capture his contrasts.Hammered heat, hidden ice. Sketch his expression,capricious, captivating. Do not erase his scars,the craters of a survivor. Remembering his history,be patient...

Monster: Puppeteer

The splintered scrape of broken bone, forced to and fro across sharp stone. No one to see, no one to care how slowly died the desert hare. No accident, no...

Monster: Puppeteer

The splintered scrape of broken bone, forced to and fro across sharp stone. No one to see, no one to care how slowly died the desert hare. No accident, no...

Treebound

When you are done with wizardry, when each breath wearies you: choose your ground; consider the ways of water, of root, branch, bark. After bending the world to your will,...

Treebound

When you are done with wizardry, when each breath wearies you: choose your ground; consider the ways of water, of root, branch, bark. After bending the world to your will,...

Brighid

Six years old, youngest of the demon’s servants, didn’t cry when the king roused her after the demon’s death; nor when, an hour later, she remembered the cut-off scorched scream...

Brighid

Six years old, youngest of the demon’s servants, didn’t cry when the king roused her after the demon’s death; nor when, an hour later, she remembered the cut-off scorched scream...