Except it wasn’t really a girl. “But haven’t you tried reproducing this thing?” I asked, “You know, retro-engineering it or something. Anal sex At least it looked like it was. What time was it? Then I understood why she waited. Home again. I see you’ve had a very interesting life. Look at you. And original Earth.”
The bright yellow light around which my pale blue dot circled. I had to stop thinking of her as a girl even though she still looked like a late spring teenager. Time and space were shrinking as the small fleet of ships blinked into what was left of reality and floated in the void waiting for the point of no return when everything around them ceased to exist. I already understood that each day was thirty-six hours long. Things and events had suddenly got a lot more confusing and complicated. God help me if an extraterrestrial walked into the room looking like something out of the Muppets or a Looney Tunes cartoon.
