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# 5
March 2023
The Evening Universe - Isuue 5 for March 2023

Contents

Interviews
Poetry
Fiction
Two-Sentence Stories
Non-Fiction
The painting used in the cover design is Ferdinand Leeke’s “A Mermaid Tempting a Satyr into the Water” (1917).

Interviews

Jeremy Szal: “A mind needs books like a blade needs to be sharpened”

by Maxim Sviridenkov
Jeremy Szal: “A mind needs books like a blade needs to be sharpened”
Jeremy Szal is an Australian space opera and fantasy author. From 2014 to 2020, he was the fiction editor and audio producer for the Hugo-winning podcast StarShipSofa. Authors he's worked with on the show include George R. R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, and William Gibson. Jeremy’s first novel, Stormblood, was published by Gollancz in 2020, with the sequel Blindspace following in 2021.
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Poetry

Front Seat

by Morgan Bazilian
Front Seat

I see her driving the minivan

Gray, unwashed,

Her daughter in the front seat

Putting her hair up…

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She Walked Away

by Priya Chouhan
She Walked Away

Face seemed pale in the starlight,

annoyed by a kiss of wind,

holding on to the damp grass,

dead words overflowed from her eyes…

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Elastic Chasms

by Thomas Piekarski
Elastic Chasms

Predatory elements kept to bare minimum,

everyone vaccinated against painful sin.

Those purple mountains sprouting spritely,

what’s seen also heard in a mind’s eye…

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Sinister Stranger

by Cordy Walker
Sinister Stranger

Sinister stranger,

Sitting on the train;

Why do you smile so?

I saw your stare…

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Fiction

The Last Fight

by Sasha Krugosvetov
The Last Fight
A king realized that his life was coming to an end—the old lion decided to leave his pride. It would seem that the king of beasts...
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Raspberries in the Graveyard

by Patrick Hart
Raspberries in the Graveyard
It had been a hot July day, and as Jack’s feet shuffled forward, a five-o’clock shadow covered the lower half of his face. Meanwhile perspiration was...
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The Boy & the Kitten

by Mikhail Strannik
The Boy & the Kitten
A pack of dogs was chasing a small kitten who was running away from them at full speed. The kitten ducked down a side street and...
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Side Effects May Include…

by Emma-Sunshine Mackereth
Side Effects May Include…
It was past 3AM, and I couldn’t sleep. I was sitting on the couch in my living room, the TV passively playing in the background, waiting...
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My Family’s Job

by Ian O Grady
My Family’s Job
I get to go to work with my dad tonight. I imagined this moment every time I watched him disappear behind the large iron gates at...
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Monsters

by Shahrzad
Monsters
Sophie gripped the bag of garbage in one hand, the recyclables in the other, and had the damp smelly paper bag of compostables, already tearing, curled...
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Two-Sentence Stories

He said he wants you to go with him

by Luke Hannon
He said he wants you to go with him
It was my friends’ idea to see how many people they could get in a minivan…
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I was jettisoned from the space colony

by Grant Gorewood
I was jettisoned from the space colony
At my granddad’s funeral a large black cat with a white spot on its chest leaped over his casket…
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Non-Fiction

AI-Generated Art. The Experience and Thoughts of a Sci-Fi Author

by David Walton
AI-Generated Art. The Experience and Thoughts of a Sci-Fi Author
One night, I asked an AI to create some illustrations for my novel Living Memory. (I used the open source Stable Diffusion model.) The results are...
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Big Brother

by Sasha Krugosvetov
Big Brother
In his dystopian social science fiction novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” George Orwell modeled the authoritarian state on Stalinist Russia. I was less than twelve years old when...
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