TY - BOOK AU - Bishop,Michael AU - Hutchins,Michael H. AU - Pinsker,Sarah TI - A few last words for the late immortals: 50 short stories & poems SN - 9781933846125 PY - 2021/// CY - Bonney Lake, WA PB - Kudzu Planet/Fairwood Press KW - Short stories, American KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Short stories KW - lcgft KW - Fantasy fiction KW - Flash fiction KW - Prose poems KW - Drama N1 - "Retrospective ... collection of 50 short pieces (thirty-four stories, fifteen poems or prose-poems, and one ... play about writing SF"-- Page 4 of cover; "All selections have been revised to varying degrees from their original publication"--Sources; Acts of chutzpah; an introduction by Sarah Pinsker --; Astyage's dream, which he relates to the Magi --; Love's heresy --; HoneyMoon walk --; Darktree, darktide --; I, cartographer --; Tears --; The contributors to Plenum Four --; To a chimp held captive for purposes of research --; A father's secret --; Wished-for belongings --; Vernalfest morning --; The egret --; In rubble, pleading --; Give a little whistle --; For the lady of a physicist --; Dear Bill --; Independence Day forever --; A few last words for the late immortals --; In the memory room --; Extinct --; Three dreams in the wake of a death --; The balloon --; Secrets of the alien reliquary --; Annalise, Annalise --; Epistrophy --; Dead poet parable --; Midwifing the world --; Menard's disease --; The Alzheimer laureate --; Her chimpanion --; Tired --; An owl at the crucifixion --; Sequel on SkorpiĆ³s --; Outside the circle --; Last night out --; The mockingmouse --; Purr --; Miriam --; No appetite for communion --; The Library of Babble --; Philip K. Dick is dead, a lass --; Ch-ch-ch-changes --; The making of Kid Dibauda --; Dt. Prida's dream-plagued patient --; Did you want to talk? --; Seevy --; The grape jelly and mustard method --; One-rhyme sonnet on the mutability of human faith --; Yahweh's hour --; A scaffold N2 - A collection of short fiction, flash fiction, and prose-poems (proems) with a variety of settings and topics. With whimsy, rebellion, anguish, and more, these works cover the expanse of human experience while acknowledging the singularity of each human life ER -