Release date: September 11, 2021
Subgenre: Science Fiction Anthology
About Simultaneous Times Vol. 2.5:
From Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree, California: A free e-book companion to the Space Cowboy Books Presents: Simultaneous Times
science fiction anthology podcast.
Featuring stories by: Cora Buhlert, Kim Martin,
Brent A. Harris, Renan Bernardo, RedBlueBlackSilver, Robin Rose Graves,
Douglas A. Blanc, Michael Butterworth & J. Jeff Jones – with
illustrations by: Austin Hart, Dante Luiz, Chynna DeSimone, Douglas A. Blanc, & Zara Kand.
Excerpt:
Little Monsters
by Cora BuhlertLana found the monster on the lawn one morning. Though she didn't know that it was a monster at first, cause it looked like a tangled ball of yarn. But when Lana picked it up, it wasn't soft and fluffy. Instead, it felt somehow rubbery.
Lana examined the thing and realised that it was a kind of ball studded with what appeared to be tentacles. Experimentally, Lana threw it into the air and caught it again. Yup, it was a ball.
Lana was about to put the strange ball into her schoolbag, because you can always use a ball, when all of a sudden the ball moved of its own volition. A slit opened in the side of the ball and suddenly Lana was looking into an eye, a single neon-green eye, that blinked at her. At that moment she knew that what she'd found was not a ball after all, but a monster. A little bitty baby monster.
Monster or not, the creature was obviously small and helpless. After all, it was just a baby and needed someone to take care of it. And since no monster mama showed up to claim her baby, Lana carefully placed the baby monster into her schoolbag and later took it home.
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About Jean-Paul Garnier:
Jean-Paul L. Garnier lives and writes in Joshua Tree, CA where he is the owner of Space Cowboy Books, a science fiction bookstore, independent publisher, and producer of Simultaneous Times podcast. In 2020 his first novella Garbage In, Gospel Out was released by Space Cowboy Books and in 2018 Traveling Shoes Press released Echo of Creation, a collection of his science fiction short stories. He has also released several collections of poetry: In Iudicio (Cholla Needles Press 2017), Future Anthropology (currently being translated into Portuguese), and Odes to Scientists (audiobook - Space Cowboy Books 2019). He is a two time Elgin Nominee and also appeared in the 2020 Dwarf Stars anthology. His new collection of SF poetry, Betelgeuse Dimming has just been released and is available as a free download audiobook / ebook at spacecowboybooks.bandcamp.com. He is also a regular contributor for Canada’s Warp Speed Odyssey blog. His short stories, poetry, and essays have appeared in many anthologies and webzines.
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