"The Procedures"

they will take away your works
and haul them to a dumpster
and thence to a landfill

to deteriorate unseen
with broken goods and spent packaging
and no one then will be able to say

whether or not you were right

your domain name
expired
has been bought by elves

you will not overcome

"It was a bit of the head-stone of a woman's grave, as was clear from the carved sunflower, for men's graves have a turban or a fez, according to the epoch." --F Marion Crawford


Rendezvous with Rama.


"The silence of Chess City is something that should be commented on. It is something alien. It is the silence of ice forming in another galaxy." --Lost Cosmonaut


"He said tektites were from the Moon, and when nobody would listen, we put it on his funeral program so he’d have one more chance."