Keith Allen Daniels, has been publishing poetry since 1972. His poems have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, SomePIG! (an "arachnoid poezine"), Weird Tales, Recursive Angel, Poets of the Fantastic, Narcopolis, Once Upon a Midnight and numerous other magazines and anthologies. Dark Planet is designed and edited by Lucy A. Snyder. If you spot any errors, or if you have any comments, please contact her at lusnyde@cyberus.ca. All materials copyright 1996-1997 by their respective creators. No stories, articles, poems or images from this webzine may be posted or published without the written consent of their creator(s).

Unsafe Alien Sex by Keith Allen Daniels How foolish to have forgotten the pinchcocks. And the tourniquet. A sheath for every excrescence would have been wise. But now I've grown bionic beyond my years, and whir with positive displacement whenever I micturate. Small prices, really, for all those memories of death.