BRYAN ARTHUR
WILL MAKE YOU A SCARLET AND GRAY FAN FOR SURE. THIS TRIO OF STORIES ARE SCI-FI NOIR AND THOUGHT PROVOKING.
ALIEN HARVEST
Ganymede Moon of Jupiter - CE 2068
Adam is a farmer, living on a new world for him. He is struggling to make a living and doubts his ability to survive at the rate he is going.
Fate being what it is, Adam encounters an entity, unknown in his experience in the solar system. The alien entity takes unusual action toward Adam, but not it seems to harm him. Following the odd alien action, Zeke, the alien, explains he is in need of Adam's help to save his race, the Anakim. The Anakim are facing extinction.
Adam learns that the alien has impregnated him, and is able to communicate with Adam from inside Adam's stomach. Using telepathy, Zeke explains what will occur as a result of the impregnation, Adam.
When the alien entity, has completed the gestation period, he is forced to tell Adam he will need more help. Reluctantly Adam relents and allows the next experiment. Alien Zeke as a result of Adam's aid, provides him with extraordinary abilities to assist in his farming and financial situation.
The world seems to be going well for Adam, until he and Zeke discover that the Ganymede authorities, have detected Zeke and now his mate Tilly have arrived on the planet. It's a cat and mouse game to avoid the agents, save the Anakim race and add the final entity to the mix that forms the total reproductive union of the Anakim. Unlike Adam, and other humanoid beings, the Anakim need a three entity unity to reproduce among themselves.
In the end, rushed by time, Enoch is brought to Ganymede, and Adam must enlist the help of his neighbor’s nineteen year old daughter, Eve. When she is told the situation she anxiously agrees, if it means being with Adam on a full time basis.
Time is of the essence for Adam, Eve and the Anakim, before they are discovered and eliminated.
RIVER'S TALE
Survivor of the Apocalypse, River is doing well by living off what she can scavenge from the rubble all around her.
She travels on a relic moped, and allows her to look for relics most others can get to. She lives in danger daily. Danger from fellow survivors, lack of food and the harsh conditions of the arid desert that is now the new earth.
River begins a new treasure hunt and as she was aware the conditions worked against her at every turn. She nearly gets caught in a deadly sandstorm and barely escapes, by accident, by falling into an underground dwelling.
Fearful that she may be trapped in this ancient underground cave, she desperately searches for a way out, and in doing so discovers something that will change her life forever...In the distant future, River lives a post-apocalyptic earth, and survives by scavenging remnants of the past civilization. Eking by on her wits and courage has served her well, but then she finds and her life is about to change !
THE WORM TURNS
This story is set well into the middle of the 21st century. It's about Mindi and Richard. Mindi works for a high end software gaming company and Richard is and has been unemployed.
Richard is a bully, and is verbally and physically abusive to his wife and treats her like a sub human creature.
It has gotten worse as Mindi is moving upward in her company and the salary is more than either of them ever made working together. Even though Richard’s life is much better, he still bullies his wife.
So, Mindi makes the money and Richards sits on the couch all day, watching porn, buying things he doesn't need and living a 'virtual kingly life.
Mindi decides to make a change in the relationship, and Richard is about to dwell in a virtual reality hell, that Mindi controls.
Richard is resistant and belligerent even when he is trapped, to the point Mindi has to provide reinforcement to his punishment, and Richard gets it in the end and other places.
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