Alien Artifacts by Patricia Bray & Joshua Palmatier

Author:Patricia Bray & Joshua Palmatier [Palmatier, Joshua & Bray, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zombies Need Brains, LLC
Published: 2016-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

Sunday morning.

I have a vague notion that I should have a hangover, but I feel great. I stick my head out of the tent. The sun is shining through a crack in the clouds and the rain has stopped. I sit back on my sleeping bag and try to remember. Saturday evening is a bit of a blur except for Sting.

Jude crawls into the tent, a cat-that-got-the-cream smile on her face, and I know she’s been with Beano all night.

“I had the weirdest dream,” I start to say, and then notice the pendant on the floor by my sleeping mat. I pick it up and slip it over my head. I get a series of images flickering across the back of my consciousness, like a child’s flip book.

I clasp the shard in my hand. There’s a faint vibration. I see through Other Ginny’s eyes: a silver interior, padded not-quite seats, not-quite couches. Tunic Ginny has already found a place. The empty one’s mine. On my left an Asian boy about my own age is already reclining.

“Is this place taken?” I ask politely.

He smiles and says something in a language I don’t understand, but his meaning is clear when he waves a hand.

“He doesn’t speak English.” The girl on my right has a strong American drawl. “Smiles real cute, though.”

The bench moulds to my body and there’s no sense of weight or pressure. I feel cocooned. Safe. I look up. Above my head all I can see is a wide vista of stars.

I gasp and let go of the pendant. Other Ginny is gone. The tent returns. My thoughts are back on earth. Have I been daydreaming?

Yesterday is already slipping away. Today is a new day.

Jude gives me a funny look. She sits back on her heels. “Are you sure you’re all right? Did you, you know, take a trip of some kind?”

Had I taken a trip? I most certainly had. I’m probably still taking it. The trip of my life.

I hope we represent our species well.

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