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Starship NX5-231 was conveying her human

  • Starship NX5-231 was conveying her human research crew through the Tergulian Sector when she detected the faint strains of Joteo Prang's cover of "Starfaring Stranger" on channel
  • 1.Too much static though.She tried channel 2.Beeblebox&Guests.Not her cup of tea-she was rather unpolitical for a starship her age.Channel 3 to 9 were Pop (yuck) but channel 10
  • . showed a coocking show with a lefthanded cook. Disgusting! 11. was some political chatter and up she went to 68. Channel 69 was something totally different now... She heard
  • a faint hum, but otherwise the TV was silent. There was no static, just white. What had channel 69 been earlier that week? A dating show? Now a shadow appeared in the corner of the
  • room, and I wondered briefly if he had come home. If after all this time, I would finally get to see his face again. Touch him. Smell him. But it was unlikely. Ever since we were
  • marooned on that asteroid together. Those were some close quarters. We were there 3 years. We had needs. I guess we still have needs. But his needs defied Time & Space. I had come
  • from a perpendicular universe clutching my temporal oscillator which vibrated in time but not in spatial dimensions. He remained wildly unsatisfied after applying it to his person.
  • That was when I knew that he and I were from different galaxies, not just physically, but spiritually. I cried as I watched his spaceship take off, but I knew it was for the best.
  • But he returned in 20 years, landing his spaceship on my front lawn. He looked like he hadn’t aged one day (such is space travel). He approached. “Did I leave my cell phone here?"
  • "I sold it on eBay 15 years ago", I replied, He left then, but I couldn't help thinking he'd really left his mark - on my front lawn where his spaceship had landed.
Started
2016-05-04 22:00:00
Finished
2020-06-14 06:27:45

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