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Attending this job fair was worth it. Humanoids flocked to him. They so rarely fell for the “To Serve Man” gag anymore...

“Seal the leftovers in critter proof containers,” Dad told Suzy. She never had to be asked twice. Dad took them on the best camping trips. While other kids journeyed back to watch the first Moon landing or did predictable reports on the Stock Market crash, they had this all to themselves. Camping ou...

The brain tumor was difficult. As Fey snipped the vessels, she could at console herself that it was not rocket science..

“What’s in it?” Glenella asked, picking up the pink ceramic container and shaking it. Her antennae buzzed with excitement, sensing the precious metals within. “I’ve seen these before,” Arkille replied, smug in his understanding of the history of this strange world. “Inhabitants used them to store tr...

Bob’s gears whirred with delight. He knew he had found them a home as he passed the sign that said Uncanny Valley Estates…

It started with a silver sphere, breaking the surly bonds. As cash followed curiosity, sentinels arrived, some kissing the exosphere and others destined for graveyard orbits. But as easily as the bipeds below learned how to fling precious metals about they stopped, turning away from the call above t...

The engineers were shocked as the rover safely arrived on the Red Planet, only to be captured & sold as a protocol droid..

All my life you’ve taunted me. When I was born, you were there in my crib, watching. You patiently waited until I could read, knowing all paths would lead back to you. You interrupted my wedding night and my chances to be unfettered by your incessant demands. I silently suffered, wondering at your w...

The pancakes attained sentience. Bill shook his fist at the charred landscape. “You blew it up, you damn dirty Crêpes!”

Captian Astounding always looked forward to this. There was nothing like a plunge straight through the heart of ole Sol to scorch the grime off after a super-battle. Miss Cardilly would be impressed, as always. Suddenly, his trajectory was halted, right as he punched through the tachocline and into ...

Kathy locked the door. Starting the coffee shop was worth it. At last, an audience for her “Pact with the Devil” stories.

I had never seen a more terrifying sky. Once, the Earth had been a paradise for them, a place where they could throw birthday parties endlessly. But as supplies diminished, thousands departed our rocky world, headed for the more welcoming environs of the bloated gas giants of the outer solar system....

Qerzl extended a puzzled antenna. Hiding in suburbia was more than they'd bargained for.“what’s an association fee?”

“But I saw him, I did!” Aggie said, leaping up on his hind legs. “You tadpoles are high on chlorine!” His mother replied sternly. She had warned them off playing in the pond inside the gates. Not only did they have to cross the asphalt desert, but most never returned. But the gnats were thick and su...

The hatch slid open. Andrea drifted into the vessels’ abandoned cafeteria. At last, she had found the bowls of the ship…

For millennia I have appeared, haunting men’s dreams. My excursions are brief, sullied by haste and the impertinence of the hour. A brief fortray in your year 1874 and again in 1882 caused mankind to tremble as only a rare jewel like myself can. In 2004 I made my brief presence known, but you had th...

Yeah, Adolf probably knew first hand whether time travel was possible or not, from the amount of visitors he received... never heard of the story mentioned, but Hitler-killing Time Travelers are right up there with Pact with the Devil stories when it comes to cliche themes. The BBC series Misfits ga...

Adolf grabbed the Luger on his desk. As another time traveler approached, he thought to himself, “It must be Thursday…”

…The moment came with nary a proclamation. Life had come and gone on its way, split cell upon cell, divided into sentience, fought its wars and gave its speeches, and then was gone in whisper. No one laid testimony to the spectacle that had so dazzled them through the ages. The Moon spun orbit after...

Thanks; I was sitting in O'Reilly's Automotive waiting for my Jeep when I wrote that particular Drabble, hence the inspiration.