Selected Scifaiku

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purple methane swamp
yellow vampire tree
polypod at home
(Originally published in Aphelion, July 2007)

rainbow against black
birthplace of shining children
spiral nebula
(Originally published in Illumen, Issue 8, Spring 2008)

minute murderer
a planet’s people wiped out
nanobot virus
(Originally published in Scifaikuest, Issue 20, May 2008)

ray gun destruction
end of civilization
alien conquest
(Originally published in Aphelion, May 2007)

slip free of time’s grasp
wander the endless ages
forsaken future
(Originally published in Aphelion, June 2007)

green grass
grows upon Martian earth-
alien invader
(Originally published in Aphelion, Issue 122, Volume 12, June 2008)

bubbling black pools
under a huge crimson sun
an alien spa
(Originally published under the title “Intergalactic Getaway” in Aphelion, February 2008)

zipping silver disk
brief joy ride to planet Earth
galactic jokester
(Originally published under the title “Unidentified Funny Object” in Aphelion, March 2008)

artificial form
brain and heart of stolen flesh
cyborg creation
(Originally published in Aphelion Issue 121, Volume 12, May 2008)

green chitinous domes
buzzing atop purple trees
insectoid city
(Originally published in Aphelion, Issue 123, Volume 12, July 2008)

wander the ether
drift past strange and frightful beasts
bodiless journey
(Originally published in Scifaikuest, Issue 20, May 2008)

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Richard H. Fay is a published artist, illustrator, poet, and writer of non-fiction, as well as an amateur medievalist, folklore nut, fan of classic speculative literature, and avid reader of true tales of the supernatural and the unexplained.

Abandoned Towers Content: Cosmic Journey  Demons of the Dark Nebula  Galactic Road Trip  Gothic Window  Holiday on Phreetum Prime  Infiltration  Mother Earth’s Children  Nanomite 323  Purple Rain  Selected Scifaiku  Sorcerous Evolution  Speculative Poetry: Past, Present, and Future  Temporal Crack  The Banshee’s Cry  The Birth of Sentience on Aggraboth V  The Era of Faeries and Dragons  The Faces  The Haunted Isle  The Maginot Line  They’ve Come for me Again  Things in the Swamp  West Dingleton’s Loss of Humanity  When Wizards Dream at Night  Worrying  

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