• That’s a shame.

    Kristi Noem out as Homeland Security secretary Her ouster comes after two contentious days of her testimony before Congress. Trump says Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin will take her place. Looks like Kristi was taken out back to the gravel pit this morning. Well, if anyone can match her for unbelievable fuck-wittery, it’s Markwayne Mullin. At…

  • Snippet Thursday

    From The Dent in the Universe: Walrus hadn’t been home since Friday morning. His eyes were tinged with red, and his hand never strayed far from his double-caff RageCola. He and Workshop 3 smelled earthy. Even the ever-present perfume of fabric softener couldn’t mask the essence of overworked Walrus. But he was happy, drunk with…

  • Julian

    Copyright 2022 E.W. Parris Digital sketch Crosshatch study

  • So long Star Trek, It’s been Nice.

    I first watched Star Trek (now called The Original Series – TOS) with my father. He let me stay up to watch it. I was eight in 1966. We didn’t have a color TV then, so the crew’s yellow, red, and blue costumes and all the colorful blinking lights were lost on us. All those…

  • Girl in Kimono

    Procreate digital portrait. Copyright 2025 E.W. Parris

SCIENCE FICTION – DOUBLE FEATURE

Reality is weird. The science that reflects our understanding of reality is weird. The very mission of science fiction is to reflect that weirdness in ways that fill the reader with wonder. Science fiction writers aren’t here to repeat comfortable tropes. We’re here to make the reader confront the unabashed nuttiness of reality and their place in it.

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