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    Spaceports & Spidersilk April 2019
    Spaceports & Spidersilk April 2019
    Spaceports & Spidersilk April 2019
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    Spaceports & Spidersilk April 2019

    By Marcie Tentchoff

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    Entertain your inner child or your real child with the latest issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk. Explore places you could never imagine in this latest issue, and it's only $1.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNomadic Delirium Press
    Release dateMar 31, 2019
    ISBN9780463331484
    Spaceports & Spidersilk April 2019

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      Spaceports & Spidersilk April 2019 - Marcie Tentchoff

      1Spaceports & Spidersilk

      April 2019

      Edited by Marcie Tentchoff

      Published by Nomadic Delirium Press at Smashwords

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Copyright 2019

      All stories and poems are copyrighted in the names of their respective authors

      A Product of Nomadic Delirium Press

      Aurora, Colorado

      http://www.nomadicdeliriumpress.com

      Cover Art: A Very Magical Night by Brit Boyd

      Contents

      From the Editor

      Unicorns From Outer Space by Rebecca Linam

      No Big Deal by Lisa Timpf

      Ellowyn Unlocks the Seasons by Heather Santo

      Flunking Witch School With a Bang by David C. Kopaska-Merkel

      Traveling With Aliens by Jessica Marie Baumgartner

      The Growling Beast by Guy Belleranti

      Tilly’s Secret Shed by Margaret R. Zotkiewicz

      Time Travel Timeshare Rental by Lauren McBride

      Ghostprint by Gustavo Bondoni

      The Last Song in the Universe by William Shaw

      From the Editor

      Welcome, readers, to the April issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk.

      I have always loved second-hand stores. I love poking through racks of dissimilar clothing, knowing that anything I find will be different from whatever trendy item is flooding the local chain stores, and that each piece of jewelry I sort through is special, and unique.

      Of course, some pieces are more special, more unique than others. Occasionally, heaped in the dusty bins and drawers I will find a something that the shop owners have undervalued, a genuine gem, or strip of designer silk buddled in with the rhinestones and polyester. And once in a while, in the rarest of thrift shops, there will be even rarer finds, items whose value has little to do with money or fame, but far more to do with strangeness and power.

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