The aliens landed the day after my brother died. At first I thought it was sad he missed this history-making event, then I envied him.
Twas the first step on an endless journey. One stretching out to infinity. As so many things do it started in blood, death and betrayal.
I will never forget the day that a former student drove a dagger deep into my heart. I thought: "Dude, I gave you credit for the bonus question!"
"Hey, I ordered Szechuan, not Cantonese!" I griped, pointing at the chopped-up fingers arranged around the broccoli garnish and sesame duck sauce on my plate.
In dog Heaven Spuds MacKenzie lit a cigarette and asked Lassie, "Did I rock your universe, baby?"
"You realize I'm a male, right?" answered Lassie.
"I wonder why the trees shoot at us every fall?" asked the curious deer.
"Maybe cause we poop on them all year," answered his friend.
"I'm still not entirely sure I believe in ghosts," I told my wife.
"But I died last year," she replied.
"Are you sure?" I asked.
"That's OK," said Spuds; "I'm actually female. What about Rinty & Nanette? He missed her; she died traveling to America, but THEY WERE SIBLINGS!"
A singularity; neither beginning nor end. Nay, merely a pause between universes; where space-time condenses before expanding yet again into an oscillating infinity. Dude! :teddyr:
He could see through the dark it was snowing hard; the sound continued. The door was opened. The cabin was filled with the howling wind.
It was the teeth that finally broke him. Clacking and gnashing away. Always ready to chomp and grind his flesh if he got too close.
John stayed up all night long, pacing back and forth, wondering where the sun had gone.
Finally, after eight long hours, it dawned on him.
Too far gone to taste his own psycho-physical corruption, the old baronet shambled forth to find a prostitute. The younger the fresher; so more pleasing.
As it shot across the sky, the Tyrannisaurous Rex thought "Oh! What a pretty burning rock."
Then the lot fell on Princess Hannath, so she went to the dark cave. Angry, the Dragon shouted, "Come on! Princesses don't have much meat!"
Through the jungle, running, running, running, chased by hostile natives, the chasm before him, nowhere else to turn, Alan leaped, & reached for a vine.
"Where are we going?" The child asked his mom.
"To the stars," she answered, "to the stars."
The countdown ended, & the rocket shot upwards.
He should not have read the words from the ancient tome without knowing what they meant, the professor thought as the world around him crumbled.
The laser bolts flashed across the ship's bow, & Drake turned towards the black hole. Anything was better than being caught by the Empire's thugs.
Cursed to wander nightly till doomsday, the ghost ship moaned as it crossed the still dark waters. How much longer? Shall this go on forever?
"No! I will not do that disgusting thing with you!"
"What if I were President?"
"You? President? Ha, sure, OK!"
Thus a candidacy is born.
Betsy from Pike crossed the mountains with Ike. Got lost in the desert, then started to fight. In town she got drunk, then they parted.
King the German shepherd had just turned two, had a girlfriend, & they were planning a family. His owners & vet, however, had another idea.
It flew, burning everything within miles. The knight journeyed to its cave. The dark dragon growled; the knight prepared his weapon: a bottle of Tums.
As the cloud on the horizon grew, the fisherman knew this would not be the day he hoped for. Soon he fought for his life.