The Alien’s Match by Elaine Waters EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Elaine Waters
- Language: English
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- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: Science Fiction Romance
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: March 23, 2023
MYRA
I walk down the slums, studying chipped merchant tables for copper wire.
It’s hard to see anything. The streetlights won’t turn on, since the town has
met its daily quota of electricity.
“’Ey, Myra. I got paid today. Let me take you on a date.”
I laugh at Sebastian—or as I call him, Sob-bastian. He’s sixty-five to
my twenty-five and determined to make me his sugar baby, although the only
“sugar” he can offer is soured and expired.
“I’d rather take myself out,” I reply.
“Where you gonna go?”
“I’ll take myself out of this world before I go anywhere with you.”
“Damn, girl, you’re cold as hell.”
I chuckle. I have no time to date, anyway. Humans have little time for
fun. Our most popular hobby is survival.
I pick up a wrench from his crooked wooden table full of oily gears,
wires, and other odd tools. “And yet you insist on flirting. Let’s talk business.
Did you get your hands on a condenser coil?”
For the past few months, I’ve been a mechanic. I enjoy experimenting
with careers, although I don’t master them all. I was a hairdresser for five
minutes before learning that baldness is no longer in style.
It takes everything to survive this postapocalyptic world. Decades
ago, dragons appeared and terrorized humans in cities underground. Millions
died, and the world became a wasteland of ash. I lived my childhood in New
York’s tunnels, afraid of sunlight and the monsters that claimed the blue sky.
They say the dragons that attacked weren’t in their right minds, but that’s not
enough to forgive them after all the trauma.
“Nah, I don’t have any new parts,” Sebastian says, scratching his
generous belly. “Things are tough, since that rotten loan shark is chasing me.
Sorry, Myra.”
I dip my chin. “It’s okay. I’ll see you next week.” I turn and leave.
Home is just down the block. I live in a building that’s a gust of wind away
from falling over. It’s dangerous and grimy, but it’s home, and I’m grateful to
have a roof over my head.
I take the long way home because it’s trash-burning day and everyone
has a barrel of smoking trash in their backyard. Eager chatter makes me stray
away from the sidewalk. There’s a group of prostitutes gathered around an
announcement board.
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