Lights and Life

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PHOTO PROMPT © Liz Young

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“It’s about time you showed up.” Constanzie tried to sound annoyed but she was too happy to see them. She expected to search throughout this section of the galaxy for them, but they were hiding on the first planet she visited.

“My husband’s going to be very happy I found you. He’s been examining the fossils you’ve left behind for years.” Con thought wistfully about the quirky xeno-paleontologist she’d fallen in love with. “He’ll win a Nobel.”

Standing in the remote grassy field, she adjusted her recorder. “This won’t hurt a bit. I just need to take a few readings.”

It’s Wednesday and once again time to participate in Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ 20 October 2023 edition of Friday Fictioneers. The idea is to use the image above as a prompt for crafting a poem or short story no more than 100 words long. My word count is exactly 100.

Constanzie is a character from my current WIP. It involves the search for an elusive alien life form that, so far in my story, has only been found in petrified remains on various planets and asteroids across some 250 light-years.

I’m still plunging into the first draft, so the writing is grisly.

To read more stories based on the prompt, visit inlinkz.

Exciting news.

My science fiction short story “The Heavens Declare His Glory” is included in the anthology Shoot the Devil 2: Dark Matter. It’s available for pre-order now and will be delivered by Amazon to your Kindle device on October 23, 2023. That’s in less than a week. Go to this announcement for a very brief description of my tale.

Also, an eleven volume anthology series that went out of print a few years back contained three of my short stories. I thought they’d be lost forever. I’m happy to announce that the series is available again. Click that link to read a little bit about each tale and in which volumes of the Planetary Anthology they can be found.

Go to Amazon to find and buy one or more volumes, or the whole series. It’s an incredibly good price.

Hopefully in the weeks ahead, I’ll have even more good news. Please stand by.

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