It’s REALLY creepy when the Roomba starts saying, “Please charge Roomba,” in the other room in the middle of the night — just loud enough to hear it’s a voice you don’t recognize in your house, but not quite loud enough to make out the words.
Author: marylowd
Another Life
Apparently, I was slow to notice this, but #AnotherLife got renewed for a second season on Netflix!!! This is extremely, super exciting, because it’s a fantastic space show, starring the BRILLIANT Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck from BSG) as a starship captain, and I love it so much!
Two story acceptances in the first week of the year! And one of them to a pro-market!!! Continue reading “Another Life”
Black Out In Space
by Mary E. Lowd
Originally published in The Rabbit Dies First, January 2019
The lights had gone out ten minutes ago. The sound of the air circulators had shut down too. Narchi didn’t know what was happening, but she was scared. Power shouldn’t shut down on a space station. Yet, she had to hold herself together. Her lapine roommates had left her babysitting nearly a dozen of their children. When she’d agreed, she hadn’t expected it to be in the dark. Continue reading “Black Out In Space”
Walking at Night
I just read “Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!” by Alice B. Sheldon (James Tiptree Jr.)… and oof.
What a beautiful, lyrical punch to the gut that calls to mind my dad lecturing me as a teen about how I couldn’t go out for a walk alone after dark.
Continue reading “Walking at Night”
Stray Thoughts on Star Wars and New Years Eve
The twelve-year-old to the six-year-old: “I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking I can’t read minds. You’re thinking mind reading is impossible. You’re thinking I’m lying to you.”
Six: “I was thinking about cookies.”
Inheritances should be a whole lot less of a thing. And Universal Basic Income should be a whole lot more of a thing. Continue reading “Stray Thoughts on Star Wars and New Years Eve”
Parenting and Resolutions
The six-year-old has made New Year’s resolutions.
He has resolved to make me take him to the trampoline park and the wave pool. Continue reading “Parenting and Resolutions”
Stray Thoughts While Rewatching More Star Wars
This is obvious, but sometimes obvious things need saying…
In Star Wars, the rebellion is antifa.
The good guys. The heroes. They’re antifa. Continue reading “Stray Thoughts While Rewatching More Star Wars”
Star Wars
My childhood was perfectly framed by the Star Wars original and prequel trilogies — I was taken to Return of the Jedi in the theatre at 10 months old and promptly fell sleep when Jabba came onscreen; Phantom Menace came out when I was a senior in high school. Continue reading “Star Wars”
Preparing for “Rise of Skywalker”
Watching Phantom Menace when you’re the same age as Natalie Portman playing Padme: What is this nonsense? She’s a grown woman, and Anakin’s a baby; how could they possibly EVER be romantically involved?!!
Watching it 20 years later: They’re both tiny babies. Continue reading “Preparing for “Rise of Skywalker””
Tidbits from Rewatching a Bunch of Star Wars
For all of his preaching patience to Luke, Yoda isn’t a very patient teacher.
Watch Luke’s face when he’s looking at Han in the first half of Empire Strikes Back — total adoration. Continue reading “Tidbits from Rewatching a Bunch of Star Wars”