Living On the Rim by Scot Walker    Living On the Rim
by Scot Walker
He was alone ... wasn't he?
Completed 1998 with one Chapter (207 words)
Fleas!
Rated for General Audiences  Rated for General Audiences

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Albelardo, a tiny but muy macho flea who lived on the rim of the Grand Telescope in the Canary Islands, had just one requirement: he must devour the mites that hopped upon the world's largest mirror. And since his was a secret mission, he was allowed no contact with the outside and since mating season had passed, he was happy being alone . . . until that sunny morning after munching his last bunch of mites for the day, when he saw this message flash from the other side of the mirror: Etuni My Reveuoye Vollliwi.

What could cause words to appear? What being writes such words? He wondered and yet, day after day, week after week, the same words appeared until finally Albelardo sent the same words back across the mirror to whomever or whatever was out there.

It only took a second for Zenaida, a female flea, on the other side, to read her very own words: I will love you every minute! And she smiled and hopped up and down realizing she was no longer alone.

The End

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