My mother used to call me her star but she was wrong. I am a ghost, not a star. Sometimes other ghosts see me; sometimes people that aren’t ghosts see me. It’s not like this is startling news since ghosts have been around for a long time. They live on the fringe of society....
Posts Tagged ‘ satire ’
Popeye Theory Kaput
Note: The following piece was originally posted on the first DN in honor of Valentines Day. There are those who view the world with pre-Einsteinian philosophies. They’re not convinced that the world is round or that gravity curves space. I refer to a popular philosophy of these people as the Popeye Theory. Everything in...
Stars wobble
When planets are near stars wobble. Sounds like a secret code or a brief haiku. Well it is an astronomical haiku. Far out in distant galaxies our star hunters have found planets by proxy. If a star wobbles it could be that a nearby planet is changing its orbit. There have been over 300...
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