“Vol de Nuit” was published in Broken Eye Books’ collection Ride the Star Wind: Cthulhu, Space Opera, and the Cosmic Weird (September 2017). It’s a story that pretty much is what it says on the cover of the book: a Lovecraftian space opera with a pretty heavy dose of weirdness.  The story is illustrated by Nick Gucker, and I’ll pop the illustration into the bottom of the post, just for balance’s sake. In the meantime, look at that cover! Notes: My mother, a French-Canadian, has always been a huge fan of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s work, and especially his autobiographical books about working as …