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fritillary frigate

Cockle & Foxfire

built a spaceship


from endangered morpho

wings & pull-tabs secreted

from Polar Seltzer cans.


On the summer equinox

Cockle severed the tether


& Foxfire exhaled hope

into soft gossamer sails.


They never crashed—

nor landed—


on this moon

or any other.


They are floating still:

Cockle thatching the roof

with shimmering cicada shells,


Foxfire tending mushrooms

in the meandering mess hall


each enjoying an endless

view of the stars.

Marisca Pichette is a queer author of more than three hundred pieces of short fiction and poetry, appearing in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Vastarien, The Deadlands, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Asimov's, Nightmare Magazine, and many others. Her poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker and Elgin Awards. Their eco-horror novella, Every Dark Cloud, is out now from Ghost Orchid Press.

Issue 11 Cover Art by Ninja Jo
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