She has one of my favorite blogs and definitely an awesome blog title. Really wish I could steal that one. You can check it out by clicking on these words *Wordplay, Swordplay*. Her Ten Word Tuesdays are always my favorite posts. Do yourself a favor and mosey on over that way.
This week's short story is probably my favorite that I've written. Hope you guys get as much enjoyment reading it as I did writing it.
Little Green Men
"C'mon."
"I don't wanna."
"Come on."
"I said, 'no.'"
"Listen. If they were gonna kill us - ah - we'd be dead already. Now, let's go!"
"I'm not going. You go on. Die by yourself."
"I swear to God, Julia. I'm going to grab you by the hair and drag you out in the middle of that field."
"Barry, you touch my damn hair and I'll kill you."
"You know what? I'm going. See you in another life, Julia."
"No, wait . . ." Julia reached out for Barry. She caught empty air is all. Julia tried to peer through the bushes but there was nothing to see.
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Julia wondered how long she'd been hiding. She saw a man wearing a red shirt in the middle of the field. That was Barry. He'd been standing there since he'd left her. Julia thought about going to him but she wouldn't. She'd seen movies. She wasn't stupid. All you had to do was watch t.v. You'd find out that when a big ship hovers in the sky bad things happen. She stayed where she was. Julia wasn't moving. Let Barry die by himself.
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Barry wanted to take Julia by the hair and drag her out here. Things like this never happened. How could she miss out on it?
Would anything happen?
Barry thought he had been standing here for a while. He kept standing. The longer he stood the longer nothing happened.
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Julia was almost asleep when Barry's head popped through the bushes. She screamed.
"Be quiet."
"You're not dead?"
"No, I'm not dead."
"Where's the aliens?"
"Stupid things wouldn't come out. I even yelled for them. You didn't hear me?"
"No."
"Oh well. Let's get outta here. I want a beer."
#
Little green men stood at the transport station. They looked into a screen that showed Barry and Julia. They were walking away from the field.
The smallest of the little green men looked at the tallest of the little green men and thought, Do you think it is wise for us to leave the ship?
The tallest of the three little green men thought back, I sense no harm.
The shouting man could present danger. The smallest of the little green men thought this to no one in particular.
The thought hung. Neither the tall little green man nor the medium-sized little green man thought back. Little green men can go for long periods of time without thinking to each other.
Finally, the medium-sized little green man thought, You two can go out to your sure destruction, but I'm staying here.
Like a candle being snuffed out the alien ship winked out of Earth's atmosphere.
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