Now for a change of pace. A story about an alternate reality where a lazy, good-for-nothing man is forced to save the human race, and his wife, from certain doom.
End of the Flies
Russ Crossley
Tonight, just as I sat down to dinner in front of the TV, my wife, Merle, started screaming and running around the house. Naturally, I ignored her.
This crazed behavior had been happening every couple of days over the past month. I’ve tried a few times to assure her the sky wasn’t falling, but she just wouldn’t believe me, so I gave up.
Then she ordered me to drop the newspaper I was reading. To help me ignore her, I kept reading. Yes, I ignored her.
Why, you ask? Because she’d done this too many times and it was driving me a little nuts.
Problem is, this time I should have paid a little more
