Patrick James is a young Irish writer from Dublin who recently signed his first book contract. 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 1996-2001 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).

charcoal by Patrick James Lowered into wet darkness during our Civil-war, the earth, soon dried off your bones- the faded paint in the chiselled-out grooves of some epitaph and collapsing wreaths... apparently abandoned twenty years ago, a now remote reminder that our old war-- heroes had once been loved. Now, no-one visits your grave bar the odd stray animals which occasionally relieves themselves on the battalion of nettles.