“Law-rence… Law-rence, Honey, where aaare you?” Mrs. Bandersnatch called from Deacon Pritchard’s bed. “I’ll be there in a minute, Jean,” a gravelly voice from the bathroom replied. “I’ll be waitin’, Hon.” “I’m sure ya’ will. I’m… sure…” BANG! Glass shattering and a thud on the bathroom floor certainly got the Chief Gossip’s attention. She ran ...

“Reverend, I would be glad to speak with you outside the diner where we have more privacy,” Esk grunted as the preacher squished him against the wall. “Oh, outside, huh? Ya’ wanna’ take this outside? Sure, ya’ little maggot!” replied Bandersnatch. The Reverend forced Esk’s wrist into an uncomfortable angle, crushing his arm between their ...

Sam led the way down to the state prison office, which Esk marveled at. They house behaviorally inept humans in cages here? Amongst the psychopaths? What is this species thinking? Esk almost tripped over himself to keep up with the warden’s pace past the jeering locked-up humans in orange jumpsuits. They looked much like the ...

Esk parted ways with Sam when they were approximately halfway back to Sam’s cabin.  “There are things I must do, Sam, but I will be back this evening,” Esk said. “Yer okay, ain’t cha’, Esk? I mean, that church service was the most horrible, rotten thing I ever seen done to a person visitin’ an’ ...

Esk stood before the Council and gave his report. He told them of Jean Bandersnatch’s examination and reprogramming, along with the same for Deacon Pritchard. He attempted to continue his report, but the Council interrupted. “Why did they need examination and reprogramming?” they asked in their collective essence. Esk was hesitant to tell them the ...

The rainbow flame in the sky shone brightly just west of the star. He wondered what phenomenon this was as the light moved with the star, and it did no dancing nor flickering. This strange light seemed stationary in the sky—as still as the bright disk illuminating the planet’s surface where he stood—and it did ...

Part Eleven A gust of wind whips through the room and opens the antique book to page thirty-five. Stuart wipes the dust particles off the top of the page and begins to read. Arthur and I found the double agent drinking a cold beer and wearing purple and gold beads around his neck like he ...

The moon was large on the horizon in the sky, as if it were merely an arm’s reach away. Kenneth loved going out at night to view the large space rock amongst the stars in the darkened sky, knowing it was not allowed to go out in the bitter, wintry night. He did it anyway, ...

Forty Years AgoAlone on a high mountain top stood a man. He was not tall, nor short, neither big nor small. He was not distinguishable from anyone else. His face was plain with no facial hair. His eyes people remembered even though they tried to forget. They were a flat steel gray, a killer’s eyes, ...

Some afflictions would be better not to exist. In the case of interplanetary parasites, many people show signs of futuristic visions. This “so-called” affliction is cause for concern to all governments of planet Earth. Those who are infected with a parasite don’t have many options. The only viable course of action to eliminate them is ...