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It's going swimmingly as Catherine Ward and Diego test the waters of friendship at Discovery Cove.
The following short article by Catherine Ward was published in the Life in Short section of the Orlando Sentinel.
With my hand cupped under his chin, I leaned down and kissed his nose. We both smiled as if sharing a private joke.
His name was Diego, and we were cavorting in a salt-
We swam together into deeper water. Turning about, Diego let me hold him by his dorsal fin and side flipper, and off we swished toward shore. What a thrill!
I felt special that day at Discovery Cove but knew I was just a passing fancy with a flirtatious dolphin named Diego.
The following article by Jill Kosmensky was published in the premiere issue of Pulp Eternity, September 1998.
FLASHBACK TO LEIGH BRACKETT
When last November arrived, a new page in my Star Wars Movie Poster Calendar beckoned to be revealed. I flipped the page up and looked at the "poster of the month" – the German version of The Empire Strikes Back. As I read down the credits, fortunately written in English, I spotted the name of Leigh Brackett who, along with Lawrence Kasdan, wrote the screenplay for this second installation of the Star Wars saga.
Leigh Brackett was a prolific writer of science fiction from the early 1940's, long before she made a name for herself in the movie industry as a screenwriter for such films as The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, Rio Bravo, and The Empire Strikes Back – to name just a few. She dabbled in the mystery genre, as well, and has a western adventure novel on her long list of published works.
Her best-
Ms. Brackett had a gift with imagery and a simple, straightforward story-
The ship moved slowly across the Red Sea, through the shrouding veils of mist, her sail barely filled by the languid thrust of the wind. Her hull, of a thin light metal, floated without sound, the surface of the strange ocean parting before her prows in silent rippling streamers of flame.
Night deepened toward the ship, a river of indigo flowing out of the west. The man known as Stark stood alone by the after rail and watched its coming. He was full of impatience and a gathering sense of danger, so that it seemed to him that even the hot wind smelled of it.
Not all of Ms. Brackett's science fiction took place off the home world. Her novel, The Long Tomorrow, considered by many to be her best work, is a gripping and frightening depiction of life on Earth following a nuclear world war. Ho hum, you say? Been there, read this kind before? Not likely. Ms. Brackett's vivid descriptions of what the people of this new Earth had to do to survive, and the struggle of a few to rise above the fear of technology will carry you along for a ride that will haunt you for a long, long time.
Leigh Brackett passed away just a few days after turning in the script for The Empire Strikes Back. The world of science fiction suffered a great loss that day. However, from Earth to Mars to Venus and to a galaxy far, far away, the stories of Leigh Brackett will endure as long as we continue to imagine.
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