Ship's radio operator, in slang

Usage examples of sparks.

But there had always been a part of Sparks that she was shut off from, that she could not share: the part of him that heard the stars whisper.

Because of that it was hard for her to be patient with Sparks, who was not, who was caught in the space between the heritage he lived and the one he saw in starlight.

Blue sparks danced on the ocean beyond red sparks gleaming in his hair.

Moon and Sparks ran barefoot along the rough walls between the shallow harbor pens, and net slung swaying like a hammock from shoulder to slim shoulder between them.

Moon whispered timidly, seeing Sparks clutch his own medal out of the corner of her eye.

It had no head that Sparks could see, unless its head and body were all one, but ragged pincers scissored among the tentacles.

The posting clerk looked at Sparks over the sill of the tiny office window the way he might have looked at a backward child.

Her anger at Sparks had passed as swiftly as the rain, and had as little effect on the greater pattern of her life.

Her hands whitened on the wooden window ledge, among the shells she and Sparks had gathered on the beach together when they were children.

The effect was nothing like the music that Sparks made with his flute .

A shower of electric sparks and foam rained down in the sudden darkness.

And I can find it out easily enough, off worlder She glanced down at the foot of the dais, at the bright, burnished head of Sparks Dawntreader where he sat uneasily on the steps.

When she looked at Sparks Dawntreader, yes, she ached to have that slender, supple body beside her on the bed, longed to touch it and feel it against her own.

He brushed the thought aside disdainfully--the way he would brush aside Sparks Dawntreader.

Without waiting for Sparks to move first, Starbuck walked past him and onto the bridge.