THE EARTH HUSBAND
Every Sunday Klaus would take flowers to ‘The Garden of Those Who Have Passed’ and dutifully he would place them in the urn specially placed to catch the sun. It was usually a leisurely walk befitting a retired professor of Alien-Technology-Transfer who was also a sprightly seventy-two years old. But today he hurried and looked into the blue daytime sky to see the myriad bright stars that were the miraculously returned 8th Expeditionary Fleet. His heart fell.
Some of the vessels trailed debris behind them as they burned, still suffering from Humankinds first encounter with a living alien race.
Klaus looked ahead and continued to dash along with a sense of dread towards his unavoidable first encounter with William, an officer on Salvage Vessel 36G, 8th Expeditionary Fle
