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That Ring of White Mist by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

That ring of white mist
                                          floating
against the night sky
is no flying saucer

                        but the fading
exhalation

on a cold azure day
of my love for you.

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Author

  • Alvaro is a Hugo and Locus finalist with some forty stories published in professional magazines and numerous anthologies, including Analog, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Galaxy's Edge, Nature, and volumes such as The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, Cyber World, The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories, This Way to the End Times, The Unquiet Dreamer, and It Came from the Multiplex.

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Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Alvaro is a Hugo and Locus finalist with some forty stories published in professional magazines and numerous anthologies, including Analog, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Galaxy's Edge, Nature, and volumes such as The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, Cyber World, The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories, This Way to the End Times, The Unquiet Dreamer, and It Came from the Multiplex.