BUMBERSHDOT Howard Hendrix


INTRODUCTION

Here’s the winner of this year’s Dwarf Star Award, “Bumbershoot” by Howard Hendrix.


Night, a gun-blue umbrella tricked with distant suns and planets, is not to be opened indoors—more bad luck, or worse.

Hold it to the mind’s sky. Finger the trigger in its handle.

A meteor bullets the firmament. The universe falls shut with a whoosh.

Shake the drops of the stars from the loose skin of the darkness.

Think of nothing for which to wish. Step into a different house.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Howard V. Hendrix is the author of six novels, three short story collections, and a whole bunch of poems that he really should put forward as a collection one of these days. He teaches English literature and creative writing at the college level. He has recently served as guest editor for a Midsummer Night’s Dream-themed issue of the Pedestal Magazine, and is lead editor on Visions of Mars: Essays on the Fiction and Science of the Red Planet.


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