Into the Wormhole by Keith Robinson

Author:Keith Robinson [Robinson, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unearthly Tales
Published: 2019-01-31T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

The sound of cracking, splintering wood continued from the grave of Judith E. Chambers. If there was such a thing as an afterlife, Liam wagered she wouldn’t be happy right now.

“Could have picked a fresher body,” Madison muttered. “I guess these little aliens can’t read dates, though. That corpse must be past its prime by now.”

“Aren’t all corpses past their prime?” Ant said.

A long silence followed. What was the creature doing down there? Liam imagined it had pulled open the coffin and was—what? Examining the bones? Trying to ascertain the Earthling form? Making notes and scraping off samples?

Despite the weirdness of the situation, Liam was enthralled. “I’m glad you moved in next door,” he said after a while.

Madison looked sideways at him. “I’m glad you’re being so cool about this. I’ll show you my journal tomorrow. Once I know my scribbled messages are accurate, I copy the information across and add notes about what I saw. We need to come up with a name for these guys.”

“How about short-rounds?” Ant suggested.

“Or munchkins,” Liam said.

Madison stifled a laugh. “Maybe we should be more serious about it. It’s just hard coming up with names for all these different aliens. I wish we could just ask them.”

Liam and Ant shared a glance.

She noticed immediately and grew serious. “I’m kidding. Obviously we’re not going to ask them any such thing. They might be dangerous.”

“Maybe not,” Liam said. “I mean, they’re only little. And they might be like harmless professors or something. They might be more scared of us than we are of them.”

“And they might have ray guns that can melt our brains.”

She had a point. Still, Liam couldn’t help feeling a little wistful. “So you’ve never approached any of these aliens? You’ve just watched from a distance?”

Madison stared hard at him. “Okay, so this is where I pull rank. This is my discovery, and I’m older and wiser than you both. We don’t know anything about these people, and we won’t get a chance to watch them long enough to find out. Once they’re gone, we probably won’t ever see them again. Next time it’ll be a different bunch of aliens, and we won’t know anything about them either. So we’re here to observe only. Got it?”

The idea of Madison being peeved was enough to bring him in line. He nodded. “I was just asking,” he mumbled.

She relaxed and sighed, then turned to Ant. “That goes for you too, Ant. You’re my guests, okay? I’m in charge here.”

He stuck his bottom lip out but gave a nod. “You’re the boss. But I can’t help wondering what’s on the other side of that wormhole.”

“It’s a gateway,” Madison said. “And I wonder all the time. But I’m not dumb enough to find out. There could be twenty of them waiting on the other end.”

“There might not be any,” Liam said.

The gravedigger appeared suddenly, hoisting his short, fat body out of the hole and climbing to his feet. He was grimy and bedraggled but had

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