“I’ve seen things you aliens wouldn’t believe. Rush hour at Central Station. A cat puking a half-dissolved mouse. Two women fighting over the last purple jumpsuit in Aldi.”
The blob of green slime quivered towards its bound captive, giving no indication it understood.
Jeff recoiled at the stench of rotting fish as it opened its mouth, his uneventful life flashing before him.
“Zaaarg, gaarth, plonk,” it drawled.
Thirty seconds later Jeff awoke on his front lawn, staring at the night sky. A shooting star drew his gaze, just as Buster arrived to lick his face. “Look, Buster! They’re leaving.”
Tim is a blogger and author based near Windsor in the UK.
His latest book is Guardians at the Wall, published in June 2021. This follows the completion of five-book series, A Light in the Dark Ages, with Arthur Rex Brittonum in 2020. This is preceded by Arthur Dux Bellorum (2019); Uther's Destiny (2018); Ambrosius: Last of the Romans (2017) and Abandoned (second edition 2018).
Other titles include: Devil Gate Dawn, published in 2016, a tense post-Brexit political/crime thriller; Postcards from London (short stories)and Thames Valley Tales (short stories); The Adventures of Charly Holmes; Charly & The Superheroes and Charly in Space (children's book series).
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