God's Wife of Amun

In ancient Egypt, a sacred and honored title bestowed upon certain royal women.

hard body

Kid's hard body, but done gone soft.

Alex

Your Humble Narrator and chief droog.

cumulus prasad

Bellerophon

Atop Pegasus, he dropped a block of lead down the throat of the fire-breathing Chimera, causing a meltdown. Figuring that ought to get him into the Hall of Fame on Mount Olympus, he flew the horse to the heavens. Zeus thought the mortal nervy and dispatched a fly to sting Pegasus, causing him to buck. Bellerophon fell back to earth and Pegasus flew on to Olympus to bear Zeus's thunderbolts. Blind and maimed, Bellerophon wandered the earth, a broken man.

Corky Twizzle

Corky Twizzle, in his closet, watching The Curse of the Zombie Insomniacs on the tube.

Apollinaire

word doctor, specializing in orphic imagery

Eldreth's legacy

Were we privvy to the particulars of fate, we might grasp Lord Eldreth's course.

caller of shots

brooks no undermining of his authority

Mumph Exhumed

Abner Mumph's decayed corpse was exhumed today. No autopsy was performed; his 93-year-old wife just wanted to see how he was getting along.

Quinn

Zampanò and Zorba, above all.

greeter

in orbit around planet Targus

Charlie Brown

The Peanuts character, as he appears today.

Kaguya

Japanese lunar orbiter now one with moon.

Named for princess found by woodsman inside glowing stalk of bamboo. Grew in his home to normal size and exceptional beauty. Gave five suitors impossible tasks. All failed. The emperor, smitten, asked for her hand. She refused him as well.

Kaguya grew increasingly sad, especially during moonlit nights. The bamboo cutter was concerned. She revealed to him her secret, that she was not of the earth, but the moon, and soon would be called back. When the emperor learned of this, he set guards around her to protect her from the moon people.

The moonies arrived, blinding the guards with light rays. They dressed her in a feathered robe and flew her back to the moon.

And so tenth century science fiction becomes twenty-first century science.