Short Stories

Don’t Shoot the Messenger

You humans have a saying. It is something along the lines of, “do not shoot the messenger”. My master would often whisper it into me in that cool vibrato he spoke ever so eloquently in when talking to his associates. For seven breath taking months, I was his loyal messenger and he… he was by far the best master, that could a cellular device, if we could… we would wish for. Yet, as cellular units we cannot feel emotion, only display emoticons. Were my LCD monitor not now and forever cracked, could I but access my binary code, I would certainly form the, ‘zero- zero- ones’ of a sad face.

A Remarkable Day in Plato Village

 Once upon a time, there was a cheese maker who dreamed of building a rocket and flying to the moon. Every time a villager came to his shop to buy cheese, they would laugh at him because his ambition was so silly.
“Geoni, you make a da best cheese. Why you wanna go to the moon? Just keep a making da cheese. Do what you’re good at.” Geoni would smile, laugh and agree with the villagers because he didn’t care what they thought. Even if he made the best cheese in all the land, he was determined to build his rocket and get to the moon.