Genre Bending Speculative Fiction
Whispers
To the Stars through Difficulties
- motto of what-was Kansas
Wanderer
“It’s important to know your history, so you can take what’s good and make more of it and leave what ain’t to the past. Teacher Carlo says it best, he says, A dream can be taught and realized across time, space, and generations—if it is shared.”
Artwork
“Tomorrow's Horizon” by Sunny Copernicus
Sam’s Hole
The shake moves from his hands up his arms and into his torso. In his bulbous EVA suit, he feels like a wiggling white leaf, a blurring ghost.
Artwork
Art: Sam in his Hole by Stephen Odom
Etuaptmumk
(Two-Eyed Seeing)
“Two-Eyed Seeing refers to learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing and from the other eye with the strengths of Western ways of knowing and to using both of these eyes together.” (Bartlett, Marshall, & Marshall, 2012, p. 335).
Artwork
Art: "The Source" by Nagihan YILDIZ
Sam’s Hole
Hand on her womb, Maya murmurs,“Where’d you go?” as Sam races through a rust-red cave, 61 million kilometers from home.
Artwork
”Maya on the Hilltop” by Face Painted
Fires Map
“Do you think they are not only spirits but something else too?”
“Like what?”
“Like fires.”
Artwork
Art: "Fires Map" by Ulli Hain
Hoops
“I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.”
Heȟáka Sápa (Black Elk),
Wičháša Wakȟáŋ of the Oglala Sioux Nation, Black Elk Speaks
Artwork
Art: "Hoops" by Obscure Muse Art
Little Sister
“You doin’ what you’re called to. When you go flying on a spaceship, you don’t run off in a line but an arc. Gotta follow the arc even though you can never see its end. A bit of math and faith is all you got. Everything is always orbiting something. And that something gets pulled and pulls back. You been pulled, Emria. I don’t recommend pulling back. Ain’t no good ever come from burying a buzzing and warm dream such as you’ve had all these years.”
Artwork
“Constellations” by Vickie Martin
