Potential Titles: David A. Kopaska-Merkel

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Tried to ride the buses without paying - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"

See eels wandering around downtown - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"

Once our genes were our own - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Excess Baggage"

Not a footprint or any other trace - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"

Burned our way into the wood - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"

No movement save the languid beckoning of the trees - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"

Deserts sometimes dream of water - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

The juniper sways in remnant currents - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Lost lakes gleam in the noon heat - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

And the fish crawled into stones to sleep - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Incandescent sand blew in on the west wind - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

For whom the desert was a keyhole - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Through which they hastened out of the past - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Into the rejuvenated sun - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Sky clear all the way up to the stars - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Untroubled by the absent sun - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Arrive empty-handed and alone - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Hunting Party"

Underground dogs turning the tide - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "I'd Had a Lot of Rum, but Still..."

Cowering in cavernous burrows - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "I'd Had a Lot of Rum, but Still..."

Fomenting revolutions on alien planets - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Jumping into the System"

Plunging off of the silty shelves - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

An unresisting jumble of debris - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

A chill river flows from the glacier's toe - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

Shattering green bones on cliffs of ice - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

Hope ever to return to day's dominion - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

To ply these frigid currents of the deep - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

Whose captain would seek the lightless reefs - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

Where aberrant creatures build cathedrals - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

Once they got good at keeping warm - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"

This time, we're going to let kudzu have a shot - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"

Promise intimate revelations to come - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Laurentia Burning"

We know how to predict their courses - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

Leaves behind us swirling in our plasma trail - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

We built this city out of magic, sand, and dust - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

Could stand the shadow of your sleeping face - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

Alone here in the gentle breeze - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

Grey hands growing from parched soil - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Monoculture"

Where cacti withered and blew away - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Monoculture"

A burst of tachyons signals another wave - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"

Another wave of time-traveling starships - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"

Because next year might be too late - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"

Cocooned in their antiseptic habitats - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

Eyes blazing with alien worlds - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

New minerals and precisely measured constants - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

Poking through the pestilential ash - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

In obscure places on several continents - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

Rooted at one level in the painter's art - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife"

The product of my admirable machine - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife"

Within a sullen glow of apocalypse - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife"

Digesting our emotions to feed her future - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Quince Bedroom"

Our biochemical keys fit fossil locks - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Raised by Wolves"

We will know when we give it a Turing test - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Raised by Wolves"

A good place for the stolen mind - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

A room inside an icy moonlet - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

How else to explain the haunting voices - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

Everything that passes through that moon - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

A myriad hailstones infected with her name - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

One of us outside, one inside - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Peeling stars from my shoulders - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Clinging to my mind's eye - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Starlight streaming through your keyhole - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Burning with the fury of subduction scorned - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Searing language into brains ill-equipped to use it - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Dementia boiling in the abyss if we slip - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Staring into those million million suns - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Making five out of two and two - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Made mirrors of the pond and birdbath - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"

The drifts covered the streetlamps - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"

Whisper in a foot-shuffle vortex - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"

A pause to gather lost thoughts - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"

How long has that bird been watching you? - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"

Under the crust of the next planet - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Supersonic Rocketeers"

Who built everything worthy of the name - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"

Who occupied every planet worth having - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"

Making remarkable machines that almost worked - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"


Collaborative snippets by Mike Allen & David C. Kopaska-Merkel.


Snippets by Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel in collaboration.


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