The computer vomits a pair of gray aliens onto the sharp and pebbled concrete floor of the sub- sub-basement of the school. The aliens wipe sixteen ropes of shimmering purple slime from their wet and bulbous eyespheres. With their silent brainvoices, the aliens tell you they are from the future. They tell you they are the two lovers from the only threesome you will ever experience in your meaningless and inconsequential life. They tell you they came here to fight to the death in front of you to discover which one of them you truly love. To this you say you don't understand, but the squat gray beings ignore you and begin a strange and squelching combat using their long, terrifying finger-objects as lethal weapons. The reeking conflict continues for ninety-three hours and eighty-six minutes. It is the most horrendous and arousing event you have witnessed so far in life.
Steve Gergley’s work has appeared in Passages North, Wigleaf, Hobart Pulp, HAD, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, and Muumuu House. He is the author of the flash fiction collection There Are Some Floors Missing. He serves as the editor of Scaffold Literary Magazine.