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# 7
May 2023
The Evening Universe - Isuue 7 for May 2023

Contents

Poetry
Fiction
Two-Sentence Stories
Non-Fiction
The painting used in the cover design is Jan Brueghel the Younger’s “Extensive Landscape with Travelers before a Windmill” (between 1622 and 1678).

Poetry

The Demon and the Angel

by Mikhail Strannik
The Demon and the Angel

Don’t wake up the demon, he is ruthless

In his hate as well as in his love.

He can jump into the chasm, know this,

He can fly and look at mortals from above…

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Siren Breath

by Angela Acosta
Siren Breath

Upon her birth on land,

a siren enchanted a newborn human being.

Cheeks blue like the sea,

she would never take a full breath of air…

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The Clockmaker

by Cordy Walker
The Clockmaker

Tick tick tick,

The clockmaker grinned,

Half blind, half deaf, but gleeful.

Crick crick crick…

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The Ballad of Modern Thales

by Edward Ziegler
The Ballad of Modern Thales

In proud less search of angelic birth

And rightful place among the stars,

Modern Thales seduced reality

Conceiving these little men from Mars…

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Fiction

Delayed Revenge

by LaVern Spencer McCarthy
Delayed Revenge
It was winter, and cold rain fell against the window pane as Eugene lay on his death bed. He was dying of cancer and was told...
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Moist Machines

by Shahrzad
Moist Machines
I glanced at Tina and said, “Gather dishes, please.” I didn’t have to say please. But even though I was only 14 during the Robot Transition...
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Through My Window

by Emma-Sunshine Mackereth
Through My Window
The clock read exactly 3AM, and I couldn’t sleep. I had this strange feeling of being watched, and I just couldn’t shake it. I turned around...
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The Isle of Man

by Matthew Gall
The Isle of Man
They found it in 1974, and have worked tirelessly to keep it secret from the rest of the globe. It’s in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but…
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Here Comes the Sun (three short-shorts)

by Leon Caluzzi
Here Comes the Sun (three short-shorts)
Well, I never thought it would end like this. Hearing the screams of friends and neighbours as the temperature slowly rises…
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My Sister’s Imaginary Friend

by Ian O Grady
My Sister’s Imaginary Friend
I forgot my homework again today and the teacher wasn’t buying the lame excuse I gave her. When I got home my parents grounded me again....
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Two-Sentence Stories

The Classic Centaur

by Derf Vader
The Classic Centaur
The beast resembled a classic centaur, except the top half was a beautiful naked woman and the bottom half was a fearsome tiger…
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Timur the Great

by J Kane
Timur the Great
They called him Timur the Great, and among his ever growing tribe of warriors he was renowned for numerous conquests…
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Non-Fiction

The Noose (diary notes)

by Sasha Krugosvetov
The Noose (diary notes)
We need to pull and pull the rope, stretching it through this wild chaos farther and farther. It is not a rope, it is a noose…
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If Artificial Intelligence Will Rule the World

by Maxim Sviridenkov
If Artificial Intelligence Will Rule the World
At the May 2023 WSJ CEO Council Summit, Elon Musk said, “I don’t think the AI is going to try to destroy all humanity but it...
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