At first it was just an animal trace, barely discernible to the naked eye. But soon it turned into a dirt trail, a country road, a superhighway and a stellar warp-lane.
Ian Bailey, a Nundle Koala from north of Sydney, followed it the entire way wanting only to escape Earth and his third class citizen status. Now he sat glowering in a bar nursing a skunky American beer, light-centuries away from the nearest eucalyptus tree, with a drunk Human from Melbourne prattling on and on and on about how humans had had opposable thumbs first.
Deven D Atkinson is a computer programmer living in rural Southern Ohio.
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[...] live at Every Day Fiction Posted on 13 November 2007 by Deven My quirky little tale, “The Journey” has been published by Every Day Fiction [...]
Loved the quirkiness of this one. It felt inspired.
Ha! Funny stuff,Deven.
The last line is priceless. A great payoff!
Terrific - and so few words! Loved that last line.
Haha!
Thanks, everyone. I was a little worried that people wouldn’t “get” my weird sense of humor.
Wow, short, very full. Enjoyed.
Very funny–good stuff, Deven!
I concur, good ending.
Thanks for the feedback!