A word from our authors… “Aliens!” The Dread Pirate Jack Spartan spit the word carelessly across the beach. He sat just shy of the water’s edge and watched the ship—his ship!—soar ever smaller to the lee of the sun, where a shadowy hulk menaced the otherwise blue sky. There would be no third hijacking, he resolved. The tropical sun bore down. Jack found shade under a palm tree and resumed his read
