Science Fiction
Date Published: February 11, 2019
Publisher: Chandra Press
When an alien named Zinka drops into Thaddeus Kinglsey’s life, he finally gets the adventure he’s been waiting for. Zinka is an exiled Aldinian who is being pursued across the galaxy by the evil tyrant Derask. She crashed on Earth and needs help repairing her ship. Thad jumps at the chance to do something extraordinary and begins an adventure he will never forget. Unfortunately, Derask learns of Thad’s involvement and destroys the Earth to punish him.
When an alien named Zinka drops into Thaddeus Kinglsey’s life, he finally gets the adventure he’s been waiting for. Zinka is an exiled Aldinian who is being pursued across the galaxy by the evil tyrant Derask. She crashed on Earth and needs help repairing her ship. Thad jumps at the chance to do something extraordinary and begins an adventure he will never forget. Unfortunately, Derask learns of Thad’s involvement and destroys the Earth to punish him.
Can this oddball team find a way to take down the galaxy’s most powerful dictator? Does ‘winging it’ ever really work? Can you find love on a planet full of mercenaries? These questions and more are answered in this whimsical romp across the Milky Way.
Excerpt 1
She stops trembling and gazes up at me. I see her eyes for the first
time, and I'm shocked to see that they are orange, and I mean entirely orange.
It must be colored contacts. Who am I to judge? If this girl wants her
eyes all orange, that's her business. I have no right to tell others what they
can do with their bodies.
"Thank you," she replies quietly.
"Hey no problem. You know, if I wasn't feeling generous, I
would have laid his ass out." I say trying to hide the fact that I'm a
wussy with false bravado. "Are you okay?"
"Yes. I didn't know what happened. Suddenly, they just started
chasing me. Shouting obscenities at me as well."
"Yeah well, welcome to New Haven, the town filled with
assholes…and me. I’m not an asshole, though. I am delightful. I haven't seen
you here before. You must be new."
"I don't know how to..." she started, but she is
interrupted by a loud static sound.
Suddenly, her entire body seems fuzzy like it’s just simply data.
Before I know it, the sweet, pretty girl in front of me is replaced with a
green creature. It has two large orange orbs as eyes. No nose or ears. Two
antennae were atop her head where her hair used to be, giving her a bug-like
appearance, except that her antennae curled behind her head and down to her
lower back. Her boobs seem to have disappeared. Probably because her species
doesn’t breast feed their young. Not one hundred percent on that, but it seems
like a safe assumption.
But just as quickly as it appeared, it was gone. Replaced again with
the young girl. I see her eyes go large with fear and anticipation as she was
waiting for my reaction. Finally, I muster up a response. The only one I could
possibly think of for what I just witnessed.
"Well, that's something you don't see every day."
She looks at me confused like she was expecting some grander
reaction. Some negative response to her glitch thingy. Really anything except
an overstating of the obvious. Little does she know, one of my top talents is
stating the obvious. Wait a minute, that means that I have three talents. Woo,
I’m a triple threat.
"What?" she asks perplexedly.
"I wasn't lying. It's not every day you see a staticky alien.
Well, I mean, you might see it every day, but I sure as hell don't."
"Why aren’t you freaking out like that other member of your
race?"
"I knew aliens existed. I mean, come on, a vast number of
galaxies and solar systems but this rock is the only one that is special enough
to have life on it? That would just be stupid. Looking at it in either a
religious or scientific way, it would just be stupid. I am a little shocked to see one here,
though. Especially considering how many light years the nearest planet with the
right conditions for life would be but, hey, it is what it is."
About the Author
C.T. Fleck is the pen name of Corey Hofecker. After dropping out of college, for the second time, he discovered the joys that are inherent in both reading and writing, and that his previous distaste of said subjects was just a lack of freedom to read and write what he truly wanted. Being a firm believer that there is beauty in the absurd, he quickly became obsessed with the sci-fi genre. In it he saw the vast possibilities and the probability of how weird our universe can get. Corey lives in rural West Virginia where he occupies his time with reading, writing, video games, and tabletop RPGs. He is an unashamed feminist of sorts and an avid supporter of LGBTQ+ rights.
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