Martian Nights

What if fallen angels got a second chance? In The Saga of Terminal City they do, freed from prison to walk the earth, doing good -- if they can. Many are the secrets hidden in the Martian dirt. What happens when they are unleashed on an unsuspecting Earth? Find out, along with the Poor Shepherds, in Martian Nights (No. 3). Read the answers in 30 chapters and 2,400 lines, all told in modern epic verse. Synopsis When on the surface of the Martian world, under the weight of Time's crusty mantle, in the red dirt, living ice is dug up, what confusion it promulgates on Earth. Of the many orders of cell-bound life, green plant, wily animal and proud man, a vying begins for supremacy, and sanctity, in Terminal City. The rich politic that sent men to Mars, and returned them home, exploited will be by amoebic Doc Plankton, with teams of conscripted actors and fading starlets, in contest with crooks for hire, including a renegade super-fascist police chief, while opposed they are by Anarchists two, and the first appearance of Poor Shepherd, and jet pilot, Kat Vitko, whose husband at the pinnacle of the effort sits, to lose or save the civic web of life. Immigrants, idjits and iconoclasts also colour the scene, as endless are dire secrets disclosed by the Martian dust, and offered to uncomprehending Earth. Bio His mind corrupted by childhood exposure to horror movie matinees, but equally enthralled by the atmosphere of old churches, Simon Pole writes galactic poetry from the location of Vancouver, British Columbia. A graduate of Harvard University, Simon has continued his studies of what is hidden in the dark. Writing is also in his blood, being the great-great-grandson of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.