Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hello, I Love You
Published by Rachel on 5 Dec 2008 at 1:00 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Flash, Podcasts, Rated PG.
by Katherine Sparrow. Read by Rachel Swirsky.
“Junk DNA? I’ll junk your DNA!” Sofia glared at Zorg.
“Apologies. It is only, don’t you find it interesting? Most of it is unused–”
“Junk? You supercilious aliens come to Earth to rein snottiness on us lowly humans? How sublime. I suppose your DNA is full of Porsches?”
Rated PG.
scatterbrain on 7 Dec 2008 at 7:50 pm: 1
Eh?
Sayeth on 17 Dec 2008 at 9:24 pm: 2
In the sequel, Sofia realizes that the alien DNA had been miscopied by millennia of replication errors. It was supposed to make her HATE the universe and everything in it.
Steve on 18 Dec 2008 at 11:05 pm: 3
Flash comment: Blah.
dirkson on 29 Dec 2008 at 7:06 pm: 4
I second scatterbrain’s comment.
Eh?
Vance M. on 2 Jan 2009 at 8:14 am: 5
I kinda liked it. Short and cute. Maybe it was all the attitude in the human characters voice that gave me a little chuckle.