DARN THOSE CHEAP MATERIALS

 

This story was written for Sunday Photo Fiction–May 9th, 2016. Each week the host, Al Forbes, provides a picture prompt. The challenge for each member of the group is to write an original story or poem with no more than 200 words and inspired by the prompt.

To read the other stories written by group members, just click on the link below, then on the little blue frog in the blue box.

The link to the other stories this week is as follows:

https://sundayphotofictioner.wordpress.com/2016/05/08/sunday-photo-fiction-may-8th-2016/

Genre: Humor/Fantasy Fiction

Word Count: 200 Words

DARN THOSE CHEAP MATERIALS by P.S. Joshi

High above Earth a secret flight took place. A flying saucer from the Planet Pittosh had a new invention for ship invisibility, The Top Secret Hidey Thingy, switched on and operating perfectly.

“Gug, this operation is the most successful we’ve had so far.”–Zig’s violet eyes gleamed.–We’ll go down in history as two of the greatest explorers Pittosh ever had.”

“Yes,”–squeaked Gug. He had a cold he caught just before takeoff.

Sqreech. Pling.

“What was that?”–shouted Zig.

Rumble. Squish. Twang. Plunk. The saucer began to shudder and shake.

“Grab the tool bag and follow me.”–Gug squeaked.

The two little aliens raced to the engineering deck. They found loose parts slipping and sliding everywhere.

“Doggone those program cutbacks,”–Zig fumed.–“We’ve got to do serious repairs.”

Three hours later things had quieted down and seemed to be running smoothly.

Zig turned to Gug.–“I have an extra part What’ll I do about it? Scientists on Pittosh will throw a hissy fit if they see this.”

“Don’t worry,”–Gug gave it a kick.–“Just open the garbage compartment and eject it.”

A strange object thudded to Earth barely missing George Rudely. “Oh, #%&*! What’s this now?”–he shouted.