Today on Microdosing our prompt is TRASH!
Write a story in 50 words!
Don’t forget to tag me if you follow along with the challenge.
"One man's trash is another man's treasure — Such a widely used phrase by this primitive species," Gorglax mumbled under his tentacles as he aimed the extraction beacon at Earth.
"Well, the Xantri dumped them here, and we're the ones harvesting them, so there might be some merit to this."
The Trash Man
By Phil Rot (me)
The trash man comes, tin can in hand, his mind imbued with lithium crystal, his eyes sharpened stones of hot, amber bile. He pulls a marmot kidney out of his bin and places it in your hands, saying:
“With 10-10-321 you can save 50% on calls over ten minutes.”
The only copy of my husband's manuscript was on a flash drive, unnoticed and unlabeled in my cluttered desk drawer. After the fire, I became frantic, thinking I'd somehow accidentally thrown it in the trash. I popped the drive into my laptop one day, and the book appeared. A miracle!