Cold Contact: A Vignette by Torn MacAlester

Writ­ten for: The Fic­tion Foun­tain 4 Aug 2019 Pho­to by Min An from Pex­els   Frank ‘Coot­er’ Ross looked at his books, try­ing to find infor­ma­tion about first con­tact. Where the hell is it? He thought. I know there is some infor­ma­tion here some­where. “What’s going on Frank?” said the female voice over the com­put­er line. “You went qui­et and start­ed grum­bling.” The voice belonged to Cathy Soren­son, the space­craft mechan­ic at the far end of the dri­ve sec­tion of the Hootie Bird. “It’s a book,” Coot­er said. “Details the pos­si­bles fer first con­tact.” “Oh,” she answered. “Part of your alien’s […]