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Issue

# 3
January 2023
The Evening Universe - Isuue 3 for January 2023

Contents

Interviews
Poetry
Fiction
Two-Sentence Stories
The painting used in the cover design is Fredrik Marinus Kruseman’s “A winter scene with skaters on a frozen waterway” (1858).

Interviews

David Walton: “I still only have time to write because I love to do it”

by Maxim Sviridenkov
David Walton: “I still only have time to write because I love to do it”
David Walton is an American science fiction author. His first novel, Terminal Mind, won the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award for the best SF paperback published in the United States for that year. In 2018, his book The Genius Plague won John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The Wall Street Journal wrote that “Walton has brought hard sci-fi roaring back to life.”
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Poetry

A woman in white

by John Grey
A woman in white

Paler than winter,

with breath to match,

she emerges from such whiteness,

there, at the edge of trees…

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She

by Sasha Krugosvetov
She

On gloomy autumn evenings,

When on the deserted streets

Under a dark stormy sky

You will not meet a soul in this town…

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Icarus at The End of The World

by Sofia Bane
Icarus at The End of The World

If Armageddon

becomes something more

than an idea

I'll fly to Mars…

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Photographs

by Leon Caluzzi
Photographs

I look out at my children, and how they play with their children.

I stare into the living room, completely frozen.

I haven't blinked for years and my eyes are like sandpaper…

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Fiction

Benediction

by Frank Diamond
Benediction
Consider this letter your inheritance. I, Joseph Matthew McDormand, do hereby bequeath to my daughter, Erin Kathleen McDormand-Donato, all my worldly possessions, which can probably fit...
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The Meteor Generation

by Heather Flowers
The Meteor Generation
Mama tells me I’m part of the last people they’re ever gonna make. She says I’m special, says I’m sweet an’ kind, and I wanna prove...
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The duck hunting

by Mikhail Strannik
The duck hunting
Three young people walked up the grassy sandy slope near the river until they came across several duck nests. One of the guys collected all the...
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The Rope

by Matthew Gall
The Rope
The rope crashed into Earth on a Monday afternoon, catching our entire planet off guard. The government swopped in, trying to assume control and make sense...
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Phoenix

by Kierstyn Budz
Phoenix
The leaves rustle slowly in the wind, a woman sits in a clearing within the dark woods. A dying fire and lumps of clothing lay nearby....
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The certain type of silence

by Shainur Ullah
The certain type of silence
I use to look after a guy called Barry, but he is very difficult. Barry can only enjoy a certain type of silence, or otherwise he...
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Two-Sentence Stories

The Prince of Darkness

by Dmitry Triputin
The Prince of Darkness
“Why, why aren’t you afraid of us?!” vampires, werewolves and ghouls of various stripes moaned and howled in every possible way, as they approached and surrounded me…
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I love my new phone’s ability

by Emma-Sunshine Mackereth
I love my new phone’s ability
I finally tried holding her hand last night! She did seem shocked, but that was probably just because…
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