Translate This - Sci-Fi Short Story - by Craig H. Bowlsby

Published: April 23, 2021, 10 a.m.

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The best laid plans of mice and aliens...

\u201cTranslate This\u201d was originally published in the science fiction magazine, Polar Borealis, issue 6 (2018). Other recent published fiction includes: \u201cThe Last of the Shamrocks\u201d in Aethlon the sports literature magazine, issue 36-1, (2020); and \u201cOne Day in Tom\u2019s Life with Ice Cream,\u201d in Neo-opsis science fiction magazine, issue 30, (2019). Upcoming fiction will be found in Neo-opsis science fiction: \u201cThe Day the Earth Didn\u2019t Stand Still\u201d issue 32, expected Summer 2021; and a story in the JayHenge science fiction anthology on Joining Forces, expected in the Fall of 2021. Craig H. Bowlsby\u2019s other works include the hockey history books: \u201cEmpire of Ice, the Rise and Fall of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, 1911-1926,\u201d and \u201c1913, the Year They Invented the Future of Hockey,\u201d for which Craig won the 2014 Brian McFarlane award from the Society for International Hockey Research. __ Craig is currently working on a detective/thriller novel that takes place in 1917 in Shanghai. Stay tuned!

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My name is Chris Herron, and I narrate audiobooks.

In 2015, poor control of my diabetes left me legally blind for the better part of a year. The doctors predicted an 80% chance I would never see again, but I changed the way I was living and through sheer willpower beat the odds.

During this time I couldn't read or write. Two things that I had been turning to for comfort since I was a small child. With the sheer amount of stress I was under, this was devastating. My wife took me by the arm, lead me into the local library, and read out titles of audiobooks to me. I chose the audiobook versions of books I had loved such as the Disc World series, Name of the Wind, Harry Potter, and more. They brought my favorite stories to life in ways I never thought possible and helped me through the darkest time of my life.

Once my vision recovered, I maintained a love for audiobooks. I decided I would turn my focus from being a writer to becoming a narrator. I devised Tall Tale TV as a way to help out all the amazing authors in the writing communities I had come to love before my ordeal.

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