FF – Dust Storm
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Russell Gayer.
Copyright Russell Gayer
Jerry stared at the deadly, yet immobile, dust storm. The stasis field, a miracle of temporal engineering, had kept them safe all these years, freezing them in time.
Trapped inside, they had struggled to survive as supplies ran low. Taboos were broken, terrible sacrifices made. People died.
“Can’t stay here alone no more, better off dead,” he murmured, switching off the stasis field, trembling, waiting for the dust to shred him.
There was a whoomp. The dust fell to the ground, the storm long since spent.
“Well, bugger. Could’ve done that months ago. Guess I didn’t need to eat Frank after all.”
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Bravo!
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What other taboos I wonder…?!
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Probably best not to think too much about it…
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OOOPS! Too late! 😀
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… he said as he mopped up the last of the gravy 🙂
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Great story. Just one question. If they were inside a termporal stasis field, why did they get hungry? Or indeed do anything?
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Yeah, I had the field on the outside, then the inside… then I decided just to go with it 😉 I’m thinking they’re in their own time bubble where time moves a different rate from outside, but still moves. Hard to explain that in 100 words though!
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ain’t he glad it was over before he bit the dust (pun intended.) 🙂
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Ha, no dust biting for him in either sense!
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Oh dear! I am guessing Frank’s last name was Furter. I bet he regrets committing such an act when there no mustard available.
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Ha! Yes, he sadly used up the last of the mustard on “leg of Harry” 🙂
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I bet that’s exactly what Frank said, too.
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No Jerry, just switch off the… munch 🙂
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Ha ha ha, all done and dusted then. And the time when they were feeling cold and…Naah, it never happened!
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Yeah, I expect they just sat there and shivered 🙂 And ate Nigel.
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More like Arnold Schwarzenegger movie TOTAL RECALL of living in Mars!
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There was certainly a lot of dust in that film!
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Yep. Too much!😊
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I was waiting for that last line… you didn’t disappoint.
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There had to be a little something at the end 🙂
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Dear Ali,
I’m sure Frank didn’t much care for being the blue plate special either. SMH and ROFL.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
No, poor fella. I guess he drew the short straw 🙂
Ali
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A bit bitter aftertaste maybe….
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Certainly now he’s discovered he didn’t need to eat him after all.
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Oops! Should have poked his head out a bit sooner. Ah well, never did like that Frank character anyway. 😉
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No, he was always a bit of a pain, but he made a good roast 🙂
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LOL! Good cautionary tale in there somewhere….
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Great piece of sci-fi! And then I choked on the last line. Hilarious!
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I expect Jerry choked a bit on Frank too 🙂
I’m glad you liked it!
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Oh my goodness, that’s gross (haha).
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Guffaw!
I was counting on you to get a giggle out of me…
Not going to think of the taboos…
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Taboos over and above eating your mates… 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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🙀
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Capable of creating a field to stall a storm on its track, but cannot create artificial food? Misplaced priorities.
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Their technology went off in the wrong direction.
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At least Jerry’s now discovered a brand new food source that he probably wouldn’t have tried before the dust storm…
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Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it!
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Was he eating Frank and beans? 😛
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Ha! His favourite dish, with a twist.
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Hindsight is always… Excellent..
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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Gulp. You had me at the breaking of taboos… I’ve recently seen a documentary about the Donner party… So Frank can stay in the freezer or is he still alive, sneaking around trying to eat Jerry? I love the setup. Perfectly logical to me, just like these replicators in the bubble in SG1…
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The Don(n)er Kebab party… 🙂
I’m afraid Jerry has already finished Frank off along with a nice bottle of Chianti bwahaha.
If only the Asgard had managed to keep the Replicators in the bubble!
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Ha! Funny, love a bit of canabalism to lighten the mood eh?!
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It was sounding a bit dark so I thought I’d brighten it up a bit!
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Cannibalism..oops, my bad.
Great comic timing!
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Everyone else just kinda fell in the fire, it would have been a waste not to take advantage…
Thanks!
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Well, I guess Frank will always be with him, sort of. . . .
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Ha ha 🙂
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Such rotten luck. I bet he wishes he’d thought of the solution earlier. Oh well – you win some, you lose some.
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And Frank lost everything 🙂
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Poor Frank! Love the notion of a stasis field.
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Frank loved it too, until… 🙂
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Haha, it was a good one. Frank must have been good too…
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He was very good, bit of ketchup, side salad 🙂
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Man, I hate when that happens…
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Find friend, get stuck in stasis field, eat friend, have to find new friend… it’s a never ending circle.
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