Tuesday, April 8, 2025

REPRISE: “There Is Only One Black Cat” • by Pauline Barmby


Many humans think they own a black cat. 

They are wrong. I belong to none of them. I have vastly more than nine lives and I live them all at once…

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Pauline Barmby is an astrophysicist who reads, writes, runs, knits, and believes that you can’t have too many favorite galaxies. She lives in London, Canada and hopes to someday visit her namesake main belt asteroid, minor planet 281067. Find more of her words at galacticwords.com.

Pauline has contributed quite a few stories in recent years, especially to the Pete Wood Challenge. However, you probably want to start with either the haunting “Trans-Earth Injection,” the scientific mystery, “Stratigraphic Homesick Blues,” or the deeply disturbing “Songbird, Jailbird,” which is one of the most-read stories we’ve ever published.

 

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