By: John Holbo

“To be good — to be whole!/But first you shall be — stranger!”

By: John Holbo

“For there’s this — the abyss/Is no sight you should miss!”

By: John Holbo

“If it’s UP you would go/First you must go below”

By: John Holbo

“Each new wave’s solemn vow:/Now is NOW!”

By: John Holbo

“Like some bird whose high perch has/Been axed, cleaved and cleft!”

By: John Holbo

“By the past, in the lurch, you/Will find yourselves left!”

By: Joshua Glenn

From THE PASTEL CITY and THE LATHE OF HEAVEN to THE DAY OF THE JACKAL

By: John Holbo

“Tomorrow is golden-NEW/This should embolden you!”

By: Joshua Glenn

Victor Canning’s FIRECREST

By: John Holbo

“For casting a cast/To catch something quite VAST!”

By: Joshua Glenn

Jack Kirby’s FOURTH WORLD storyline

By: John Holbo

“That’s WHY fortune’s fickler/And WHY I’m a stickler”

By: Joshua Glenn

Robert C. O’Brien’s MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH

By: John Holbo

“History pickles/The things of the past!”

By: Joshua Glenn

M. John Harrison’s THE PASTEL CITY