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• Mark Starman in the 21st Century, Chapter 5: The First Battle

  November 14, 2025

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  Steve and I dashed madly through the corridors to the C.I.C., as other men and boys ran elsewhere all around us. The siren had stopped blaring, but the panic was still there. Frantic thoughts passed through my head over and over again. Pirates! Pirates attacking us! I’m going to die!…

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  + Mark Starman in the 21st Century, Short Stories

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• Space Trudge, Episode 3: The Attack

  November 11, 2025

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  Captain Cork dashed through the corridors as fast as he could, with Mr. Spark chasing after him. The Spirit Halloween aliens popped out of every corner, ransacking rooms and killing crewmen left and right. “Captain, what is our actual next course of action?” asked Spark. “We can’t run like terrified…

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• Mark Starman in the 21st Century, Chapter 4: The U.S.S. Indianapolis

  November 7, 2025

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  The shuttle tore through the black, star-speckled void of orbital space, picking up speed with every second. I couldn’t see the Earth behind us, but ahead…ahead was a whole new universe. Giant space stations spun lazily, kilometers long, in rings, cylinders, and spheres that looked like something out of The…

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  + Mark Starman in the 21st Century, Short Stories

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• Mark Starman in the 21st Century, Chapter 2: The Sleeper Awakes

  October 24, 2025

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  When I finally came to, everything was dark. The chamber was pitch-black; the blue glow that had lit the rocks before was gone. I took a breath. The air was clear now—no bitter taste, no sting in my throat. What happened? I wondered, pushing myself upright, my body stiff and…

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  + Mark Starman in the 21st Century, Short Stories

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• Mark Starman in the 21st Century, Chapter 1: The 110-Year-Old Boy

  October 17, 2025

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  As strange as it may sound, there was a time in my life when I could honestly say I was the universe’s only 110-year-old boy. In other words, I—Mark Alexander Starman—am almost certainly the only man in modern history whose ordinary lifetime of eighty years has stretched across one hundred…

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  + Mark Starman in the 21st Century, Short Stories

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• Space Trudge, Episode 1: “Where No Man Wants It to Go”

  August 15, 2025

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  Space. The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Roddenberry. Its five-season mission: To foul up strange new worlds. To tick off new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man wants it to go! Captain Joe P. Cork sat back in his shuttlecraft, watching the…

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• Sci-Fi Parody Songs: “The Drunken Redshirt Song”

  July 24, 2025

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  A Star Trek Star Shanty Parody of “The Drunken Sailor Song” (traditional sea shanty) Listen to the original song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIZX5YDBukY / What shall we do with a drunken Redshirt? What shall we do with a drunken Redshirt? What shall we do with a drunken Redshirt? Early in the stardate…

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• “The Great Snowball War”

  July 23, 2025

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  This is not a parody song. It is a humorous poem I wrote in sophomore year in which a local snowball fight escalates into a full-scale modern war. Some of my friends found it somewhat funny. Enjoy! ‘Twas winter break, and all the children were free To play in the…

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