Fry Words 175 – 200 : try kind hand picture again change off play spell air away animal house point page letter mother answer found study still learn should America world
The place looked like an animal house. Bill wished he could wave his hand and cast a magic spell to change everything back the way it was.
On the floor in his study among the broken glass and destroyed circuit boards, Bill found a three page letter from his mother that he'd forgotten to answer. He held in his shaking hand a picture of his father that his mother had sent with the letter. His father was in his thirties, before Bill had been born, and was outside the house, standing still looking away off into the distance. The letter said that his mother thought Bill should stay at home on Earth and study and learn about farming in America – not go off to another world. But he had been too stubborn to change.
Bill folded up the letter, put it with the photo in his back pocket and stood with his hands on his hips looking round at his laboratory. He didn't know what to do.
Maybe his mother had been right.
Suddenly, with a hiss a hot laser blast streaked past him and hit the wall above his head. He jerked round in shock to see two men outside the door coming towards him through the smoke with their blasters raised. With a cry Bill dived behind a counter and crawled on hands and knees to the other end of the lab as more laser blasts caused broken glass and sparks to rain down on his back and shoulders, burning his neck, and cutting his hands.
Who are these men? He thought. What are they looking for? Why are they trying to kill me?
Too many questions and not enough answers.
Copyright © Chris Young 2018
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