Space Juice: Chapter 14 – Jellyfish of Europa
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. A steady breeze buffeted the red sand. A mild sandstorm gripped the continent. Red sand was totally useless, unlike its dusty namesake: red dust. The dust felt fine and powdery, red sand was coarse. The only relation it bore to red dust was colour. The sand existed everywhere, from plains and valleys to …
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Space Juice: Chapter 13 – Blackout
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. The lights dimmed. Rothball Hazard quickly unzipped the bag. Marley perceived a faint, slightly furry body. Nono attached its limbs to the hooks and wrapped chains around its torso. Marley’s suspicions increased when three chains were fastened to twisty spikes jutting from the head. They could only be antlers. Zorgon antlers! “I know …
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Space Juice: Chapter 12 – Test subject
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. The patting of feet did not last long. Rothball Hazard had reached his destination. Chuck Marley and Gaston Dimble advanced down the corridor to Frint Nono’s lab. Hazard waited around a corner, looking left and right. He nodded at their approach and poked an intercom. After looking up and down, Hazard brushed his …
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Space Juice: Chapter 11 – Red dust overdose
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. If Chuck Marley wanted to know more, now was a good time to execute his plan. It had only been a skeleton thought, until he’d seen the salad. As Rothball Hazard voraciously tore at a piece of dodo flesh, Marley discreetly removed a vial of red dust. He was unsure about the correct …
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Space Juice: Chapter 10 – Venus Flytrap of Venus
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. After what seemed like an hour’s hike up the spiralling corridor, Marley and Dimble arrived back at the exhibition hall. They could not see Rothball Hazard. But something was going on behind the giant statue. Figures whizzed back and forth from the statue to a door at the end of the hall. A …
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Space Juice: Chapter 9 – Red dust
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. Thuris Thranganis gazed for a while at the air vent. “I’ll have to put my pet cloud experiments on hold.” “Pardon? Wet cloud experiments?” Marley was beginning to suspect he had a hearing loss. “No, you heard me. Pet cloud. I’ve been designing an intelligent cloud that has both practical and emotional uses. …
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Space Juice: Chapter 8 – Studier of useless things
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. The corridor curved constantly to the right, flanked with steel doors, some with thick glass windows through which a flurry of movement could be seen: A lab assistant carrying a test-tube, a cage with a globulous jelly, a robotic arm hyperextending into a convex cauldron. Was that a Zorgon? Chuck Marley slowed and …
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Space Juice: Chapter 7 – Small man big statue
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. Two large glass panels silently opened on approach. Marley looked at Dimble. He roughly grabbed the wig and properly arranged it on Gaston’s head, giving it two firm pats. They walked through a lobby. They passed beneath an arch flanked by two sliding doors, finding themselves in a massive hall. Looking up at …
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Space Juice: Chapter 6 – Labradroids
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. Located in the heart of the human settlement, the lab sector pulsated with lights, billboards aerial drones and ground vehicles. The humans had their own tower, although this didn’t have a fanciful name like the Tower of Guardians. Nor did it seek to fill the beholder with awe. It was built for practical …
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Space Juice: Chapter 5 – Special sauce
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. Gaston Dimble was lying on his back next to his fifth Betelgeuse Burger when Marley found him in the buggy park outside Jinko’s Takeaway. “My Betelgeuse Burgers were spiked. You look blurry Chuck. And there’s two of you.” Gaston pointed unsteadily. “Four, almost five Betelgeuse Burgers? I’m not surprised the special sauce has …