The Ant-Men of Tibet and Other Stories by David Pringle

Author:David Pringle [Pringle, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781903468029
Google: s3QkPQAACAAJ
Amazon: 1903468027
Published: 2022-01-21T14:50:30+00:00

Eugene Byrne

and went out to the com er newsagents for a paper. I wasn’t really thinking o f anything at all until I got to the shop - and saw the newspaper headlines, and remembered the strange visitor.

What do you do when something like that happens? What can you do? Not much. I just got on with things, but of course it nagged at me all day. The papers read, I tried to get down to some work, but couldn’t start anything. I opted instead for useful-feeling displacement activity - ironed shirts, hoovered the living-room, fed the cat, took an inventory o f the larder (I’d be starving soon, remember), cooked dinner, watched some improving Sunday evening TV and fell asleep on the sofa. I woke at around 10pm and decided to go to bed and read a book.

There was this guy sitting on my bed.

“Yo,” he said.

“Yo yourself,” I answered.

He wore a kaftan, flared jeans, and a lot of beads. I sort of assumed it was the same guy as appeared the night before, but I couldn’t be sure. His face was obscured by long black hair, a pair of dark, round glasses and a Zapata moustache.

“Alfred. From the future,” he said. “I, uh, like, wasn’t sure you’d remember me from last night. You would appear to have snorted a lot of crack, or smoked some Ecstasy, or such. Or could be you is malnourished. Common hassle when you’ve got no bread.”

“It was alcohol, actually,” I said for conversation’s sake. “Umm, how can I help you, Alfred from the future?”

It was only when the cat came into the room, jumped on the bed, and apparently walked through the stranger that my hair actually stood on end.

“Will cut to the point,” said Alfred. “I’m from the future, late twenty-first century. I’m a holo projection, not in person. Can’t clue you in on how I got here. If I did you might drop the dime to some techie, leading to premature technological development. Could, like, divert the whole timeline. Also, is real mindfuck concept. Too heavy for destitute salaryman dude to dig.”

“Uhhhh, right… You tell me how you got here, and I’d rush off 127

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