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    8 Short Stories
    8 Short Stories
    8 Short Stories
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    8 Short Stories

    By Floyd Looney

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    8 Short Stories. Most of them are science fiction and some of them are humorous.

    Proper Care & Feeding of a Gort - Be careful adopting alien pets.
    Just To See What Happens - Quantum theories come to fruition
    Admirals & Dreadnoughts - The Kingdom has too many Admirals
    A Boy on a River Bank - A time of no heroes
    The Devil & King Midus - Maybe you shouldn't listen to advice from demons
    The Good Doctor Stutz - Time traveling (medical) doctor, but no box
    What Time Is It? - At least an ostrich will remove its head from the sand eventually
    Tae Ga-Ku - A boy has strange dreams of a girl getting closer, then she arrives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFloyd Looney
    Release dateMay 24, 2015
    ISBN9781310651953
    8 Short Stories
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    Floyd Looney

    Floyd Looney from Texas, 43, has been a science fiction fan his whole life and has been writing stories for himself since he was a child and only recently decided to try and get some of his writing published.

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      8 Short Stories - Floyd Looney

      8 Short Stories

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      Table of Contents

      Proper Care & Feeding of a Gort

      Just to See What Happens

      Admirals & Dreadnoughts

      Boy On A River Bank

      The Devil & King Midus

      The Good Doctor Stutz

      What Time Is It?

      Tae-Ga-Ku

      Proper Care & Feeding of a Gort

      By Floyd Looney

      Nobody had ever dreamed anything so fantastic. No science fiction writer had ever dared to open their minds to this possibility. It happened nevertheless.

      The Instant Launch Drive allowed humans to pop out of normal space and pop back anywhere, even in other galaxies. It was a shocking development. The cost of space travel was now almost nothing and Earth was soon abandoned.

      We all got our own planets!

      Yep. They deliver mail here and everything, the kids even get picked up by the school bus in the morning. Okay, not morning for everyone since we all live in different time zones on our planets. Some worlds even have two Suns and don’t get to see the dark much. Anyways, it is like a little bit of the suburbs on our own 36 billion acres. Oh and private school, of course, think I’m nuts or something?

      No zoning laws and no pesky, evil Home Owners Association!

      So there I was. Sitting on 844 West Park, that’s my planets name and its address with the Inter-Galactic Postal Federation. I don’t have any kids and my wife is always working for the Andromeda Christian Association. It’s a busy job but at least she comes home every day, like I have mentioned it’s a short commute.

      Well, still I get bored. I am a writer but sometimes there is just nothing to write about, especially when your life is almost perfect. Whose life isn’t perfect these days?

      Just doddering around the house one day I found a catalog, obviously delivered by the punctual postal-bot. It was all about pets! Pets from twenty million worlds, just scanning through it would take lifetimes. This was going to take a while.

      After just a few minutes the catalog blinked, it accessed my bio and told me that my world and my bio suggested I would be perfect for a pet Gort.

      A gort? What is a gort? I asked. I consulted the e-catalog from InterGalactic PetMax Corporation.

      Up on the screen popped the picture of possibly the cutest little animal I had ever seen. It had reptilian scales, in reddish and bluish hues on its forehead, six legs and the bottom of its thick tail. On the top of the tail, back and a mane around its neck it had thick orange fur.

      Gort

      Originally found on Planet 323 Aurora

      Sweet natured hybrid of mammal and reptile (as far as can be determined) makes a wonderful pet for those living in temperate climates on blue-green planets.

      Like I said I was bored and the video of the people playing with their gorts, they seemed intelligent, had me sold. I sent off my digi-cash and expected that within two days I would be the proud new owner of a baby gort.

      I was very excited.

      I had no inkling that there might be some kind of problem coming.

      Maybe I should have at least done a search on the Inter-Galactic Information Exchange, I suppose. Hindsight is at least 20/20, the old saying goes, but a little foresight at the time would have been helpful.

      II

      Then one day the doorbell rang and I found a box on the doorstep, out front I saw a postal-bot blink out of regular space and time. I picked up the box, noticing the tiny air recirculation unit blinking away in the green, and carried it inside.

      I sat it on the dining room table and pulled off the attached booklet that was titled ‘Proper Care & Feeding of a Gort’. I looked at it a moment and tossed it on the table and tore into opening the box from the top. It wasn’t exactly made of cardboard so I

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