#ScribesAndMakers 2504.08 — Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you. (Give credit if it's not your song.)

I'm not religious, but that doesn't mean that allegorical songs can't impress me. Allegory (incidentally as it were) by Murray Attaway is a strangely uplifting and mystical song that never fails to bring pictures to my mind and a sense of awe that brings me chills.

Coincidentally, or perchance not, the lyric snippet below inspired a chapter titled "Allegory" in Reluctant Moon. Thorn Rose takes her friend Streak outside the city to watch a meteor shower, knowing the precise time it will start. Seems the weather service had tracked the trajectory of a piece of the sky struck from the heavens.

I've included a listen link and a lyric link.

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Murray-attaway-allegory-lyrics
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYVYSLS04Z0

Sudden move in the stars, whenever I look to the skies
I can get lost, stand in a mirror and know that I
Am a fragment of something greater than I
Specks of dust in a moonbeam gathering shape
And potent of greatness waiting to light

Even the wind in the trees is the allegory
Everything that is and ever will be is the allegory

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool

#gender #fiction #writer #author #photographer #chef #cooking
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

Parkour boomer shooter Metal Eden has a free demo out now, and you can even win some dosh playing it if you're quick enough - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/parkour-boomer-shooter-metal-eden-has-a-free-demo-out-now-and-you-can-even-win-some-dosh-playing-it-if-youre-quick-enough #Shooter:FirstPerson #Birdview/Isometric #ActionAdventure #DevolverDigital #ScienceFiction #XboxSeriesX/S #SinglePlayer #Firstperson #ReikonGames #DeepSilver #MetalEden #Strategy #XboxOne #Shooter #Ruiner #Indie #PS5

#WordWeavers 2504.08 — MC POV: What are the 3 most important things you always take with you when traveling (besides money, ID and keys if applicable)?

I don't care much for things. Oh, I'll use them, and properly value them, earn them when needs be, but only knowledge and people have real value. I wasn't born into wealth, but upon my parent's death, when I was five, the powerful decided I was somehow special. Wealth, training, and responsibility followed. I don't know exactly when I stopped being a kid who nerded out on magic† with her childhood friend, when I morphed into someone else's sharp tool. When I grew old enough to pass as an adult, with great precision, calculation, and planning, I ran away never to be found. My elite life wasn't what I wanted, what I needed.

Since then nothing, no thing, describes what I want or desire, other than simply my freedom to study and learn. When you don't have a place to return to, or a place to live, they call you homeless. I gave my former life up, and when I find a new situation that sours, I can give everything up again. Snap, like that. Being home-free is a freedom from being made to do what I dislike, or what's wrong. I've traveled across the continent on foot. I've lived in homeless encampments. The three things I take with me are a tarp, a bedroll, and my book of magic.

Those are things, of course. I take my skills, my common sense, and a sharp tongue, also. They keep me safe.

————
† Magic is a simplification of a physically quantifiable repeatable phenomenon.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory

Ace O'Hara by Basil Blackalle and Conrad Frost
#comicstrip #aceohara #comicstrips #sciencefiction #scifi

I’ve been casually watching Star Trek: Prodigy on Netflix recently. I must say it’s very charming and shockingly compelling for a kids friendly show. I’m glad I didn’t sleep on this for too long!

https://gerisfilmblog42.blogspot.com/2025/04/filmvorstellung-per-anhalter-durch-die.html

https://amzn.to/4jnmWpa

https://gerisfilmblog42.blogspot.com/2024/03/filmvorstellung-lautlos-im-weltraum.html

https://amzn.to/4hYqsoF

A Brief History from the Squad 51 Universe. The birthplace of humanity wasn’t lost in a spectacular disaster or blown apart by aliens (though it might’ve been cleaner that way). No, Earth faded the way most things do through greed, neglect, and a thousand small cuts. https://www.mpaxauthor.com/what-happened-to-earth/
#books #writing #sciencefiction

Alien Clay () #Scifi #Sciencefiction

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind...On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go?Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a reality in the worst way. His political activism...

https://www.coryd.dev/books/9781035013746

Thought I'd share a sneak peak of a new poster I'm working on for chapter 2 of Terra Incognita. It's so much fun to see all the story elements coming together visually after working on the script for a couple years.

Jeff Hawke by Sydney Jordan
#comicstrip #jeffhawke #scifi #sciencefiction #comicstrips #spaceopera

Conspiraco - Scifi Short Story - Follow a day in the life of the the government agency that creates conspiracy theories to keep society stable.

https://inkican.com/emergency-reality-shelter-independent-science-fiction-short-stories-sci-fi-short-stories-creator-economy-escape-narratives/conspiraco-scifi-short-story-free-sample/ #freestuff #free #freebies #giveaway #frugal #scifi #Sciencefiction #books #booksforkids

In author John Van Stry's new hard science fiction novel "Sometimes In The Fall," Dave from his 2022 novel "Summer's End," has "a more 'settled' or perhaps at least 'legitimate' life." Though clearly that won't last... To learn more, check out this exclusive interview.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-sometimes-in-the-fall-author-john-van-stry/

. . . . . . . .
#JohnVanStry #JohnVanStryInterview #JohnVanStrySometimesInTheFall #JohnVanStrySometimesInTheFallInterview #JohnVanStrySummer'sEnd #ScienceFiction #SciFi #HardScienceFiction #HardSciFi

In these terrible times, escaping to Mars is not an option. But it could be...one day. In my new interview with author Joe Mungo Reed about his speculative fiction / science fiction novel "Terrestrial History," he tells a multi-generational story about colonizing the red planet.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-terrestrial-history-author-joe-mungo-reed/

. . . . . . . . . . . .
#JoeMungoReed #JoeMungoReedInterview #JoeMungoReedTerrestrialHistory #JoeMungoReedTerrestrialHistoryInterview #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SpeculativeFiction #SciFiBooks

#WordWeavers 2504.07 — Does your MC have a secret? Can you give us a hint?

Yes. I wrote May Ri's story in 3rd person so her last few chapters present a mysterious secret. Hint: It's a high tech version of very low tech.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

W. E. Terry's interior art for Robert Sheckley's "Off-Limits Planet" in Imagination (May 1954)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

Beyond the Torment Nexus: How Does Science Fiction Help Us Prepare for the Future? https://www.byteseu.com/903002/ #FuturePredictions #Predictions #Science #ScienceFiction

I am very happy to be part of this wonderful collection of international #scienceFiction stories by Nnedi Okorafor, Sabrina Calvo, @luvan , Peter Watts and many more.
& thank you for the thoughtful review: https://weirdaholic.blogspot.com/2025/04/photosphere-interieure.html?m=1