← Search

Star*Line, Summer 2025

July 2025

Contents

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
3 Poem Fiction Eulogy for the Invaders Stewart C. Baker
4 Poem Fiction Cosmic Conflicts John H. Dromey
5 Essay Non Fiction Haunting Time John Reinhart
6 Poem Fiction The Deniers Matthew Harrison
7 Essay Non Fiction SFPA Announcements (Star*Line, Summer 2025) uncredited
8 Poem Fiction How the Qilin Came to Have One Horn Arukoya Tomais
9 Poem Fiction Dyer's Polypore: A Romance Amelia Gorman
10 Poem Fiction The Face That Sees Me Shines Down from Above Jordan Hirsch
11 Poem Fiction Time Travel Promises (A Romance) Howard V. Hendrix
12 Poem Fiction Pneumatic Music in Common Time M. Ray Vidrine
13 Essay Non Fiction Versions Brian U. Garrison
14 Poem Fiction Light Dolo Diaz
15 Poem Fiction Lagrange Point Herons Mary Soon Lee
16 Poem Fiction Apollo 17 and Beyond Adele Gardner
19 Review Non Fiction Cats and Dogs in Space David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Lisa Timpf
20 Review Non Fiction Midwest Futures: Poems & Micro-Stories from Tomorrow's Heartland Lisa Timpf & Randy Brown
21 Review Non Fiction The Reducing Flame David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Richard Magahiz
22 Poem Fiction Dear Mary Shelley, Jacqueline West
23 Poem Fiction What Ravens Know David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Ann K. Schwader
24 Poem Fiction Mandelbrot Dolo Diaz
25 Poem Fiction Rats in Space DJ Tyrer
26 Poem Fiction Splitting a Bottle of Eden's Sour Apple Wine with Grandpa Nietzsche Gretchen Tessmer
27 Poem Fiction The Voices Calling Us Back Daniel Ausema
28 Poem Fiction Beauty's Captor Nico Martinez Nocito
29 Essay Non Fiction Put Down Your Flamethrower Denise Dumars
31 Poem Fiction Ghazal for the Sugar Skull Lich Nicholas De Marino
32 Poem Fiction The Exoplanets Were Never for Us Art Holcomb
33 Poem Fiction On the mourning of future history Brian Hugenbruch
34 Poem Fiction The Anatomy of Things That Never Should've Been Born Joy Yin
35 Poem Fiction Dies Sanguinis Grace R. Reynolds
36 Poem Fiction Stop Clinging to the Meat Miguel O. Mitchell
37 Interview Non Fiction Interview with Arley Sorg and Shingai Njeri Kagunda Jean-Paul Garnier & Shingai Njeri Kagunda & Arley Sorg
40 Poem Fiction As Sweet As Silk Nicholas De Marino
41 Poem Fiction Dog Days: A Postmortem Love Poem Taylor Hamann Los
42 Poem Fiction ghost story of a lost sister Christina Tang-Bernas
43 Poem Fiction Angels in the Architecture Sandra J. Lindow
10|10.1 Poem Fiction "time-travel boredom..." Alan Ira Gordon
10|10.2 Poem Fiction On Second Thought Lauren McBride
11|11.1 Poem Fiction Fireflies in a Void Murray Eiland
11|11.2 Poem Fiction "time warp" David C. Kopaska-Merkel
12|12.1 Poem Fiction It's Not Me, It's You Gerri Leen
12|12.2 Poem Fiction Retrofuturism John H. Dromey
14|14.1 Poem Fiction Cosmic Nihilism Jade Doumani
14|14.2 Poem Fiction Commodity Ken Poyner
15|15.1 Poem Fiction Beware the North Ian Li
19|19.1 Review Non Fiction The Future Is Brief Lisa Timpf & Jean-Paul L. Garnier
21|21.1 Review Non Fiction To Love Unquietly Herb Kauderer & Deborah L. Davitt
22|22.1 Poem Fiction The Time Traveller Matthew Wilson
23|23.1 Poem Fiction Winged Girl M. Frost
23|23.2 Poem Fiction "one breath—" Greg Schwartz
24|24.1 Poem Fiction "a wave shifts..." Anna Cates
25|25.1 Poem Fiction What Chuck Yeager Didn't Say Howard V. Hendrix
25|25.2 Poem Fiction While You Wait Jaymee Thomas
25|25.3 Poem Fiction "microplastics" Ann K. Schwader
25|25.4 Poem Fiction "steel bodies rust" Nicholas De Marino
26|26.1 Poem Fiction Tiptoe Through the Tulpas Robert Borski
27|27.1 Poem Fiction The Last Price Jenny Thompson
27|27.2 Poem Fiction Cemetery Row Rebecca Olson
32|32.1 Poem Fiction Venus, In Transit Devan Barlow
33|33.1 Poem Fiction What Black Holes Read Mary Soon Lee
33|33.2 Poem Fiction "save" Lauren McBride
34|34.1 Poem Fiction Cry of the Curio-Hawker Bree Wernicke
35|35.1 Poem Fiction "his blue eyes" Sarah Cannavo
36|36.1 Poem Fiction when stars speak Herb Kauderer
36|36.2 Poem Fiction "last drop of water" Melissa Dennison
36|36.3 Poem Fiction "God closes a door" Nicholas De Marino
3|3.1 Poem Fiction "luminescent window—" Robbie Coburn
3|3.2 Poem Fiction Moonmoons Robert Borski
3|3.3 Poem Fiction Never Change Alper Ghuchlu
41|41.1 Poem Fiction "reddening leaves" Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
41|41.2 Poem Fiction Three Hunters at Their Ease David C. Kopaska-Merkel
41|41.3 Poem Fiction Freudian Trip Greg Schwartz
42|42.1 Poem Fiction Accidental Harvest Denny E. Marshall
43|43.1 Poem Fiction "bored ghosts" Christina Sng
43|43.2 Poem Fiction "broken-hearted" Greg Schwartz
43|43.3 Poem Fiction Couch Bound G. O. Clark
43|43.4 Poem Fiction "apocalypse" Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
4|4.1 Poem Fiction Dreamscape David C. Kopaska-Merkel
4|4.2 Poem Fiction Better Read Than Dead Robert Borski
4|4.3 Poem Fiction "greetings from" Lauren McBride
6|6.1 Poem Fiction The Watchers Deborah L. Davitt
6|6.2 Poem Fiction "Implant splinters mind(s)" John R. Platt
7|7.1 Poem Fiction The Census Taker's Search Mike Collins
7|7.2 Poem Fiction Darker Darkest A. J. Dalton
8|8.1 Poem Fiction Dragoncology Randall Andrews
8|8.2 Poem Fiction The Future Archaeologist's Report Jacob Bergstresser
9|9.1 Poem Fiction "makeup roses" LeRoy Gorman
9|9.2 Poem Fiction ΛCDM Richard Magahiz
bc|44 Poem Fiction The desert hermit's voice Richard Magahiz
bc|44.1 Poem Fiction Uses for a Bed of Cyborg Tulips Robert Frazier
bc|44.2 Poem Fiction "quantum chromodynamics" Joshua St. Claire
Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
Editor Non Fiction Star*Line - 2025 John Reinhart
Cover Art Non Fiction Star*Line, Summer 2025 Gal Barkan