Issue #16
Featuring Stories by: Lars Schwed Nygård, Richard May, J.A. Prentice, R. Keelan, and Anne Shimeki
Poems by: Michelle Koubek, Erica Leslie Weidner and M. Frost
Welcome to the 16th Issue of James Gunn’s Ad Astra
July 2025 – We hope you enjoy your visit to James Gunn’s Ad Astra. If you would like to be part of our future issues, please read our submissions guidelines and join the conversation.
Begin Your Journey
Letter from the Editor
The Name of Things to Come
At a recent writing workshop, I heard a participant comment on another one’s nomenclature: android, laser, Altair were deemed unimaginative clichés. I found myself in instant disagreement. Here’s why.
Blog
On Revising
The morning slog through a max of 300 words of a first draft. Ploughing a rocky field with a Neolithic ploughshare, stopping every foot or so to pry up a boulder and roll it over to the growing drystone field wall.
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