Would Santa
be considered a U.F.O.? The holidays are fast approaching, whichever holidays
it is that you celebrate. It’s always a
great time of year to relax, reflect, and re-focus and what better way than to
lose yourself in a little creative craftsmanship. This will be the last set of
snippets for the year and hopefully we’ll go out with a bang. Make sure you
check out all the great snippets posted over at SciFiFanSat.blogspot.com. This
week, Annie finally made it out of the alley! About time! But is there more to
her rescuer than meets the eye? Read on
and find out. If you need to catch up on a few, check out the previous snippets
posts on my site for Stein. _______________________________________________________________________________
She was inside an assembly plant, metal
conveyor belts running in all directions above her. At her feet, hundreds of cans
of dog food sprawled around her, their contents spilled across the floor. She
guessed it to be her haggard hero’s food source for the last few months.
Turning back
to the makeshift door between the factory and the garbage dumpster, Annie watched
the man stack garbage bags to form a make-shift wall where the front of the
dumpster existed moments before. One of
the bags fell and he shrugged, moving to the corner and plopping down on the
ground.
Annie
glanced behind her to make sure her escape route was still clear and
half-whispered, “Uh…hello?”
The crumpled
figure looked her way, seemingly transfixed by the flame in her hand, before
turning his back to her.
“I just
wanted to thank you for…you know, saving my life.”
They sat in mutual silence. She was
never the most socially verbose person, even when there were still people
around to be social with, but kneeling there, ankle deep in trash, she felt the
need to say more to this man.
There you
have it! Another year of Sci Fi Fantasy Fun wrapped up. It’s been a great year
and I’ve made some great friends thanks to this site, especially with my novel
Welcome to GreenGrass coming out a couple weeks ago – the link for it is on my
page. I hope you’ll check it out! I hope you and yours have a great holiday
season and I look forward to sharing more of my writing next year! See you in….well…see you next year.
