Space Western limerick contest-winners

By at 10:30 pm Monday, Nov 26

Nathan sez, "SpaceWesterns.com just announced the winners of a Space Western Limerick contest. The contest was judged by Jane Espenson (Firefly, Battlestar Gallactica), Keith R.A. DeCandido (novelizations for Serenity, Star Trek, etc.), and Gary Trainer (song-writer for the Jet Black Berries 'Sundown in Venus' album, and The Atomic Swindlers)."
There once was a cowboy whose horse,
Had the power to leap with great force,
Into space she would jump,
Then the cowboy would slump,
As he died in the vacuum, of course.
-- Larry Hodges

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A barmaid from Nerus Omega
once mourned in her sea-swamped bodega,
"If we fishfolk had feet
my life might be complete --
I'd cancan from Rigel to Vega"
-- Marcie Lynn Tentchoff

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