Star Spring by David Bischoff

Author:David Bischoff [Bischoff, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, intrigue, genetic engineering, evolution, starship, David Bischoff
Publisher: Event Horizon EBooks
Published: 2015-05-07T05:00:00+00:00

“EVERYTHING you know is wrong!”

The voice insinuated itself among the oil-on-water shimmers, a resonant wind. Todd Spigot, floating peacefully, tasted the tenor trembles, opened his ears to the resonance in this more-than-Dream state. The current crescendoed like breakers slashing at a seashore with white-water claws. The colors of the vision quivered, then coalesced into matter ... or something similar.

Todd found himself sprawled facedown on artificial turf, its plastic scent distinct.

Up canted his head.

Down it went again, covered by shaking hands.

“No,” he moaned. “Oh, God. No.” An eternity of fear passed, cool and forbidding textures on his body.

A voice, the voice, said, “Todd Spigot! Come on downnnnnnnnn!”

Fevered clapping sounded around him: an expectant audience.

He peeped up again to see if new company had arrived. But no; the same sight assailed his vision. His universe now stretched no more than a hundred meters edge to edge, an elaborate spray-painted astroturf mandala; an island adrift in raw space. Overhead hung a magnificent canopy of stars atwinkle, planets ablaze, an occasional comet rocketing through the deep darkness in which they hung. Instead of awe at the wonderful sight, Todd felt an overwhelming sense of exposure, of agoraphobia. The sides of the mandala dropped off into nothingness. No escape. No exit.

“By Buddha’s butt, you’re a timid one!” the man in the purple tux said into a microphone whose cord snaked through an opening in his vest, plugging into a belly-button jack. “Don’t Shiva and Shake, Todd Spigot.” He chuckled, flouncing the gilded ruffles spilling from his cuffs and below his neck. “We gonna have Veda much fun!”

Appreciative chuckles cascaded from nowhere. The thin, handsome man showed bright white teeth in a grin as he strode to Todd and helped him to his feet. He thrust the mike in front of Todd’s face. “So, what’s your Bhagavadgita, man?”

“Pardon me?” Todd said, realizing that he was clothed in a white robe emblazoned with the words VEDANTA YOU TOO! below an alligator insignia.

“What do you do, O pilgrim?”

“Well, I helped save Earth once.”

“Cosmic, man! You must have some heavy dharma on your head.”

Todd felt the top of his hair. The MC laughed. “Welcome to The Game, my friend. I’m the host of the show and resident guru, Lonnie Lingham, and if you’ll just step over here to the great Cosmic Wheel, you can spin and see which game Brahma wants you to play.”

“Look, I don’t know what I’m doing here, but it’s all a mistake! I’ve got to get back on the Star Fall. All humanity is going to be in a big fix if something isn’t done to stop Earnest Evers Hurt!”

“Hey, cool your heels, pal! Meditate a bit on this: we’re all One. I’m you. You’re me. Dig it: we get squirted out in this life, forgetful of our origin, and then we gotta find our way back. Pain? Death? Fear? Just our imagination. But we’re all of the same stuff, so just relax, okay, and let’s have some fun!”

He snapped his fingers. A thing that looked like a carnival wheel, festooned with streamers of bright color, materialized before them.

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