Not From Here
Once upon a time, there was a young girl, who lived with her Dada, her Mumma, and their two cats.
Once upon a time, there was a young girl, who lived with her Dada, her Mumma, and their two cats.
Fred Skeller has time traveled to his local shopping mall in the 80s, he’s about to drink the first Slush Puppie he’s had since he was a teenager…and all his cash is counterfeit because it hasn’t technically been printed yet. His dream is slipping through his fingers like so much slush…
Fred Skeller looked around in wonder at the sudden transformation of his childhood shopping mall from a near-abandoned hollow shell back into the hustling, bustling, peanut-and-cigarette-scented galleria of his youth. An idea was rapidly forming...
“Get rid of it all,” said the owner of the house. “Every last tree and root and rock. No stone unturned, and I mean it!”
Fred Skeller felt like being sad, and he could think of no better place to be sad in than the mall. So, he went.
Souk Baijin took a deep breath and gingerly lowered himself into the trench. With the brush, he gently swept away a thin layer of remaining dust. Something gleamed in the shadows at the bottom of the pit…
Dust swirled up around the dented metal skin of the ship as pilot Souk Baijin and navigator Charle Sage twisted and banked along the canyon bed. This was no game, but it might be the only way to get out of the business—that is, the only one that would keep them alive...
They were trash miners: prospectors of second-hand gems and used ore, cruising the junk heaps of known space for the garbage of dead cities and lost moons. They should’ve ended up as something better than this, but maybe their luck was about to turn around…
Child who does NOT want to go on a ride but is in line for that ride with an adult
“Hi. My name is Superman. It’s nice to meet you.” “Hello, Superman,” said the figure, sitting opposite in a beige armchair. It was a human male, simply clothed, with what could only be called average middle-aged features and a bald head. “Tell me about yourself.”