Tag Archives: NASA

MITCHELL BIGGS: Voyager

Adventure, Submissions, , , ,

the loneliest satellite
fifteen billion miles from home
one eight-track to keep me entertained
and just a simple calculator brain
but I voyage on
sending signals and messages back
not knowing how to return
or where this trip is taking me
but I know—
I carry something of great importance

Mitchell Biggs is a poet based out of the Skagit Valley in Washington State. Growing up near the Salish Sea, he found his creative muses in the natural world, in the DIY music scene and in endless stacks of thrifted paperbacks. His work has been featured in Writer’s Hour Magazine and Dissident Voice.

DEBORAH TAPPER: Explorer’s Lament

Artistic, , ,

I dreamed of distant worlds. Instead, unattainable space flaunts endless diamonds while my sluggish prison crawls across lunar dust, analysing every atom of this pocket-sized landing site. Earth rejoices – and I document what’s already known.

When it’s done and I shut down forever, I’ll turn my sensors to the stars.

Deborah writes at an old desk surrounded by five hundred pet bugs.

EMILY ROTH: Flight

Submissions, Touching, , , , , ,

“Do you remember this?” I trace grooves in the plaque. An engraved spaceship glints, perpetually airborne.

Dad’s eyes remain closed, lips parted.

“We went to Cape Canaveral. You shook the president’s hand.”

Nurses appear and vanish.

I wonder if Dad feels like he’s floating. Preparing to sail into the unknown.

Emily Roth is a librarian and writer based in Chicago. Her writing has recently been published by Exposition Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, and TL;DR Press, and she was shortlisted for the 2020 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction.

The Soothing Autumn Sounds of the Miller’s Millstones

Odd, , , , , , ,

There were no keys to the city, boisterous parades, Nobel prizes, or television interviews for the man who conquered friction. (His call-in to local radio was unrelated.)

Hal Miller’s millstones, which once kept the whole neighbourhood awake, were now silent, and also completely ineffectual.

Too bad NASA never followed up.

This story was based on a title suggested by @ecocd.