There's not even enough asprin in the world...

I was up on the roof yesterday, working on it. Let's be honest here, I'm not exactly young and not at all fit. I spent all day trying to clean the roof so I could coat it in that rubber stuff that's supposed to block 80% of solar heat and not only did I not get done, my whole body hates me right now. I'm actually glad I'm still working on my edits because that gives me a reason to sit inside and do sit-down work without feeling like a lazy slug!

Ok, I don't have any flash fiction today. Not anything new, anyway. I thought about re-posting something, but decided not to. I have been working on some new stuff, so I thought I might share a snippet of that. It's a sci-fi story that got started with a rather silly writing prompt. "Write a six word sci-fi story." The first line is my six sentense "story." I hope you like it.

~Rebecca

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"Wanted: bionic dog with opposable thumbs."

“Eh, no,” Stormy Macklemore replied, not bothering to look at the ad being pointed out by her younger brother by seven minutes. She took a big slurp from her protein slushy, brain freeze be damned, because there was no way she was going to look at the listing that was currently highlighted on Duke’s e-reader. Looks wise, the only difference between the twenty-eight year old twins was their gender and the eight inches duke had over her 5’3” in height. Both had straight, dark brown hair, dark blue eyes, and pale complexions. Both had square faces, clefts in their chins, button noses, and athletic builds. Stormy’s hair was a little longer than Duke’s crew cut, but only by a couple inches and only on top. Personality wise, they almost weren’t related. Duke loved absurdity in all its forms and Stormy would rather be doing something useful with her time.

“You sure about that?” Duke asked, his tone implying great mirth at her expense. “Says here that the buyer is looking for an animal capable of—”

“I don’t care,” Stormy cut in before Duke could get momentum going. He had developed a deep love of reading the classifieds as a teen back on Earth, looking for oddball listings. It hadn’t taken long for him to figure out how to get them on his tablet once they’d found their way to the planet Thespis. He had been rewarded for his effort, as the population of Thespis was equally in love with posting odd things in the classifieds.

Thespians were an odd sort. Mostly humanoid looking avians, they were highly intellectual and hadn’t a mean bone in any of their feathery little bodies. There also didn’t seem to be any common sense. Really, what would bionic dogs with opposable thumbs even do in an avian population group? She slammed that thought down fast, not wanting to know the answer to that. One of the joys of having ADHD, a syndrome Duke had been spared, was that once something like that got stuck in her head, it wasn’t going to go away until something else came along to dislodge it. She was currently sitting behind the controls of their shuttle, the Icarus, at the beginning of a run that would take four days. She didn’t really want to spend the next four days pondering cybernetically enhanced pets.