Space Oddity by Christopher Edge

Author:Christopher Edge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chicken House
Published: 2020-12-01T16:00:00+00:00

DAD’S NEVER COMING HOME

‘Eyewitnesses claim that Ion Jones, a local man attending a Dads and Kids’ Adventure Weekend at the Getaway Experience with his ten-year-old son Jake, was “beamed up” into the UFO which then disappeared completely. However, all camera phone footage of this so-called “alien encounter” in Middlewich Forest seems to have been mysteriously wiped. Authorities suspect that the incident may be some kind of hoax, as a viral video now being shared on social media shows the same man chasing a runaway Lego spaceship at a local school fete. But this evening, there is no escaping the fact that Ion Jones is still missing and, as I stand outside the Jones’s family home, a young boy inside is missing his dad.’

Stabbing my thumb down on the remote I angrily switch off the TV, but I can still hear the sound of the reporter’s voice.

Getting up off the sofa, I make my way over to the window. The living-room curtains are already drawn, even though it’s only just gone dark outside, but peeking through a gap I can just see the back of the TV newsman as he wraps up his report.

And he’s not the only one out there.

It looks like most of the world’s media is camped outside our front gate. I can see their names on the sides of the vans which fill the street: BBC, ITV, CNN, 5 Live, Sky News and even North West Tonight. Beneath the street lights a small forest of TV cameras crowds the pavement, their lenses all aimed straight at my house. As the first reporter puts down his microphone, I watch as a second news crew starts to set up their shot, the reporter bustling her way to an empty spot next to the wheelie bins.

It’s been like this ever since I got back from the woods.

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