LIZZIE
I am a good mother. The kitty this, the kitty that. Let nature be nature. We need to take him to the vet, and you whined and whined and I took the kitty to the vet. I’m a good mother. It just annoys me to have to change my plans. I had stuff to do. If the kitty had lived till then, I am sure he’d survive a few more hours. And you turned your back on me and left to your room and then you left for good. Now we don’t talk. And it’s all your fault… your fault.
RICHARD
One more sleep
“So, how many sleeps left?”
John looked at me strangely.
“Until the big day?”
“Only one now”, he replied quietly.
“And the guvnor, what’ll he be doing?”
“He’s making a list, and checking it twice. Nothing left to chance.”
“And the meal?”
“Turkey, with all the trimmings, just like you wanted.”
I smiled happily, as John made his way out, and I crossed out today’s date on my calendar. Just one more sleep left.
And tomorrow, I’d feast on turkey before being taken to the special room.
Where they’d strap me to the chair.
And light me up, for Christmas!
SERENDIPIDY
There’s only me left now, as for the rest of the colony: Dead, every last one of them.
It’s 2032, and Covid has ravaged the earth, those few of us surviving became the Regenesis Project: Humanity’s last ditch attempt to save the species by establishing a colony in space.
But now, they’re all dead.
Except me.
So, I did a test, and it seems I have it too, but I’m immune.
I’m just a carrier, a vector, a Typhoid Mary.
Although, I knew that before we left earth.
But there’s no way I’d miss a chance to be an astronaut!
TOM
What Could GO Possible Wrong 018
It was the center of all things. A pint glass with a duck on it. Pretty nondescript. Not your average temporal time vortex. But what real is ATTV? I could not give you an exact definition, and I am the narrator here. Best I can offer up is can said object a line multi D-s. So it was in three different time-space planes three sets of left hands held the duck shot glass a vector 0 0 0 0. All that was needed was a bit of Time Lords Joo-joo. When all the liquid blue disappeared, everyone was in place.
NORVAL JOE
“Come on,” Sabrina said and waved Billbert to follow her across the street. He had nothing else to do that afternoon so Billbert followed her into the corner store. It was small but they seemed to have some of everything.
Billbert followed her down aisle after aisle until they found the snack food section. Sabrina reached for a bag of popping corn. “Oh good. They have one left.”
Billbert scratched his head. “The thing you need for the ceremony tonight is popcorn?”
She rolled her eyes. “We want snacks afterwards, of course. I thought we could make some caramel corn.”
PLANET Z
Delivery drivers have computers on their dashboards, and the computers give them an optimized route to all of their deliveries.
More often than not, taking three right turns is faster than waiting to take a left turn.
When I see an Amazon or UPS or FedEx truck taking a left turn at a busy intersection, I know something weird is going on.
And when I see a delivery person wandering around the apartment complex, I know they’re completely clueless as to where any particular unit is.
The apartment complex hasn’t bothered making a map.
They’re too busy raising the rent.