“Doesn’t it bother you that we live in a galaxy filled with all kinds of different aliens, but almost everyone here is human?” ——— Read “Breathing the Air at Wespirtech,” a story from WELCOME TO WESPIRTECH: deepskyanchor.com/breathing-the-…

“She’d grown up on a normal planet with actual cities … not some weird backwater world where literally every sentient creature had been created by one mad scientist, drunk with his own abilities, high on his own power.” ——— Read “Summers on Sylverra”: deepskyanchor.com/summers-on-syl…

“If the stars had chosen her — somehow — to be their scribe, then it was not for her to turn the role down.” ——— Read “The Girl Who Could Hear the Stars Sing,” from BEYOND WESPIRTECH: deepskyanchor.com/hear-the-stars…

“My stomach is a confused bunny
Poor rabbit, hopping in circles
Weak and afraid … My lungs…
Oh my lungs
They are an incompetent spider
Constantly spinning cobwebs
Cluttering up my breath” ——— Read the rest of the poem, “I am a Zoo”: deepskyanchor.com/i-am-a-zoo/

“If you look under my skin
You’ll find a collection
Of several octopuses
Trying awkwardly to cooperate
To steer this human-skeleton-mecha-thingy” ——— Read the poem, “Several Octopuses in a Trench Coat”: deepskyanchor.com/octopuses-in-a…

“The universe is a machine
For generating conversations;
When every possible conversation
Has been had,
The multi-verse will be complete.” ——— Read the poem “The Multitudinous Conversation”: deepskyanchor.com/the-multitudin…

“The bio-department didn’t have any brain-scanners designed for animals.” ——— Read “Slug Time,” a short story from WELCOME TO WESPIRTECH: deepskyanchor.com/slug-time/

“He was bumping shoulders with plant-laden practitioners of the squishy-sciences all day.” ——— Read the short story, “Einray and the Biologist,” from WELCOME TO WESPIRTECH: deepskyanchor.com/einray-and-the…

“Might these telechips be the next step in human evolution? In twenty years, will we all be, essentially, telepathic?” ——— Read the short story, “My Words Like Silent Raindrops,” from WELCOME TO WESPIRTECH: deepskyanchor.com/my-words-like-…

“The diatome swirled with shining light as Nicole reached out her hand. Before the cephalopoid passed the diatome from its grasping tentacle, its alien eyes caught Nicole’s.” ——— Read “The Faithless, the Tentacled, and the Light”: deepskyanchor.com/the-faithless-…

“Brent Schweitzer first turned his eyes to Wespirtech … when he learned that his favorite flower, a variant of the terran ghost orchid, had been genetically engineered on his homeworld’s very own moon, at Wespirtech.” ——— Read “The Genetic Menagerie”: deepskyanchor.com/the-genetic-me…

“While his people cowered in a makeshift city in the desert, he was secluded with a member of an alien race so far advanced that the fate of a single world seemed small to them.” ——— Read “Lunar Cavity” from WELCOME TO WESPIRTECH: deepskyanchor.com/lunar-cavity/

““I speak,” scrolled over the trembling body in simple red. “I speak that I am,” and after a pause, “I am the Screen Savior.”” ——— Read “The Screen Savior” from THE OPPOSITE OF MEMORY: A COLLECTION OF UNFORGETTABLE FICTION”: deepskyanchor.com/the-screen-sav…

“…am I truly a human dreaming of being a bizarre alien giraffe, shopping for groceries in an asteroid belt? Or am I the giraffe, dreaming of being a human?” ——— Read “Too Many Jangleberries”: deepskyanchor.com/too-many-jangl…

“The tentacled creature had become, in an instant, the measure by which she would judge the rest of the world, for the rest of her life.” ——— Read “Stranger Than a Swan”: deepskyanchor.com/stranger-than-…

“How did you do this?” She was sure, deep under her fur, that the octopus was behind the snow. “And why?” ——— Read “Octopus Ex Machina”: deepskyanchor.com/octopus-ex-mac…