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.
George had a lucky escape! There’s always a bit left over when you do a bit of DIY, isn’t there? 🙂
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Thanks, Ali. Yes, George did have a lucky escape. He’ll never find our how far or from where that junk came from either. The next time space junk falls we might be witnessing a piece of alien junk. Who knows. I’m so happy you enjoyed the story. Other than falling junk, I doubt anyone on Earth has anything to fear from my aliens. 😀 — Suzanne
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Good one, Suzanne.
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Thanks, John. I’m so happy you enjoyed the story. I had fun writing it. 😀 — Suzanne
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It looked like you did. 🙂
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This story had me rolling, Suzanne. It’s so LOL funny. I love the sound effects. Well done!
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Thanks, Diana. I thought you might enjoy that story. I’m so happy you did. I always enjoy creating funny aliens. If they ever invaded Earth, they’d probably go first to Disney World where they’d fit right in. 😀 — Suzanne
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You have a talent for it, Suzanne. I love your sense of humor 🙂
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Haha I loved this. The names, title of the project and the ending. All cleverly put together.
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Thanks, Al, for the great compliment. I’m so happy you enjoyed the story. I had a lot of fun writing it. 😀 — Suzanne
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Very, very funny. Darn those cutbacks. 🙂
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Thanks, Susan. I’m so happy you enjoyed the story. I enjoyed writing it. They have some of the same problems we do on Earth. 😀 — Suzanne
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