The Show
The Show “Hurry up Rita, or we’ll miss the show.” Sammy was so excited this morning that he’d woken up at sunrise and was in his sister’s room trying to get her up. They had a long walk into town and he wanted to get an early start.
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Zek the Vrek
Zek the Vrek The Strantlonian Vrek sipped his tall, chilled Nepune Rapure, looked around the room at his small gathering of friends, and wondered if this is how it was on other planets. They were helping Zek celebrate his seven hundredth and ninety second
Before They Come Back
Before They Come Back “Excuse me sir.” Here it comes, I hate it when people ask me for money. I pay my taxes so that there are places they can go when they need help. I’ll just keep walking; ignore him, shake my head, and say “sorry.”
Traveling Faster-Than-Light
Stardate 67216.2 Traveling faster than the speed of light always gives me a headache. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t think that traveling 300,000,000 meters per second is necessary. I like to daydream about the ‘good old days,’ a time when everyone wasn’t in such a hurry. My grandpa told me a story about traveling […]
The Robot
The Robot The Nelteo 43 robot had begun to display signs of malfunctioning, so Henry decided to return it, before it quit working completely.
The Mountain
The Mountain Reaching out, Seth grabbed a hanging vine and pulled himself up to a ledge, where he could rest for a minute and decide what his next move would be. Looking down the mountain, he was amazed at how far he had come. “I really can do this,” he said, noticing that he […]
Timmy’s Time Thwarter
Timmy’s Time Thwarter Timmy’s experiments were always getting him in trouble. The first time was a trial to determine the distance and speed that an object would travel when thrown from a moving car. He was six years old; the family decided not to replace the cat.