THE JOURNEY • by Deven D Atkinson

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.


Posted on November 13, 2007 in Science Fiction, Stories
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2007-11-13 03:02:46

[...] 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 [...]


 
Comment by Jordan Lapp Subscribed to comments via email
2007-11-13 08:56:24

Loved the quirkiness of this one. It felt inspired.


 
Comment by dj barber
2007-11-13 08:59:09

Ha! Funny stuff,Deven.


 
Comment by Steve Goble
2007-11-13 11:06:52

The last line is priceless. A great payoff!


 
Comment by Avis Hickman-Gibb
2007-11-13 11:27:40

Terrific - and so few words! Loved that last line.


 
Comment by GL
2007-11-13 14:48:05

Haha!


 
Comment by Deven Subscribed to comments via email
2007-11-13 15:38:38

Thanks, everyone. I was a little worried that people wouldn’t “get” my weird sense of humor.


 
Comment by Darlett
2007-12-05 18:54:55

Wow, short, very full. Enjoyed.


 
Comment by James Steimle
2008-01-16 08:44:25

Very funny–good stuff, Deven!


 
Comment by Lyn
2008-02-27 07:59:41

I concur, good ending. :-)


 
Comment by Deven Subscribed to comments via email
2008-03-15 11:04:11

Thanks for the feedback!


 
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