A Near Future Science Fiction Vignette: Another Plot by Torn MacAlester

“Milt,” said Mary, tired of the con­ver­sa­tion. “You didn’t real­ly want to be an astro­naut?” “No, it was a means to an end. Noth­ing more.” “I wish you wouldn’t antag­o­nize our broth­er. He scares me.” “Mor­ris is a fool,” Milt said. “A dan­ger­ous one. “True, we can­not under­es­ti­mate him.” “Then why all this mess­ing around with the fake iden­ti­ty and the trip to the Moon?” Mary asked. “I took some­thing that he didn’t deserve to have.” “The arti­facts?!” “Yes,” Mil­ton said, nod­ding slight­ly. “They dis­ap­peared from his vault a lit­tle over two years ago.” “Broth­er, I real­ize you want to […]