More Trouble

by Steven Utley

Congratulations!

Earth has been selected

for membership in our

fraternity of planets.

Why, of course

there is an

initiation rite.

We thought you knew.

Copyright © Steven Utley 2004

Photo Copyright © Eric Marin 2004

About the Author:

Steven Utley, a founding member of Texas' Turkey City writers group in the 1970s, is the co-editor (with Geo. W. Proctor) of an anthology of fiction by Texans, Lone Star Universe (Heidelberg Publishers, 1976), and the author of Ghost Seas (Ticonderoga Publications, 1997), The Beasts of Love (Wheatland Press, 2004), Where or When (PS Publishing, 2005 [UK]) the perennially soon-to-be-finished Silurian Tales, and two volumes of verse, This Impatient Ape (1998) and Career Moves of the Gods (2000), both published by Anamnesis Press.  

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