This week's story is in response to a prompt/challenge to include the following:
Main character: A jealous husband
Antagonist: mutant squids
Setting: outer space
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Chrissy manoeuvred herself over to the window and stared out. Outside the spaceship was dark and starless; inside almost the same.
“What are you looking at?” John asked, floating towards her.
“The vast nothingness.”
“Don’t lie, you’re dreaming of him, aren’t you?” His frown was all-encompassing.
As his space-suited fingers found her arm and clamped down, Chrissy sighed.
“There is no ‘him’. ‘He’ was fixing our shields, that’s it. I promise.”
“Better be it. Or I’ll fix his shields,” John muttered.
Something caught her eye as she rolled them, something purple and large, with tentacles thick like elephant trunks, and eyes like wormholes.
“John!” Chrissy screamed, “Turn the boat! Turn the boat!”
“Holy freakish mutant squid!” John yelled as he clamoured to the wheel and turned it hard starboard.
The squid casually grabbed the ship with two of is tentacles, peered inside curiously for a moment, and then shoved the boat away.
As the boat somersaulted into relative safety, Chrissy and John sat in stunned silence for a moment.
"Chrissy?”
“Yes, John?”
He looked down, wishing he could resist asking the question, but knowing he couldn’t. Managing not to tap her fingers, she waited.
“Tell me the truth, okay?” he said finally, “you know before when you were looking out of the window so dreamily? Were you....were you looking at the squid?”
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