Skip's Short Story: Give Me The Water

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In the beginning, God created man to watch over the garden and all its creatures. Well, that’s partly true. There were more than one garden and defiantly more than one Adam and Eve. In order to ensure the population to flourish, God spread out dozens of human couples in the hopes they would ultimately meet and continue to populate. But after some time it looked like there was no such luck, and with inbreeding becoming immanent God decided to send his angels to “help” with the situation which resulted in a near perfect subhuman species. Skip forwards a couple hundred generations and that’s when the discovery was made that subhuman’s could only mate with other subhuman’s. Careful considerations of bloodlines lead to selective breeding between …show more content…

Obviously military guy didn’t like this and practically screamed at me. “What is your problem?!” he yelled. “For starters I’m soaked. They’ve been using this water torture on me for hours waiting for you. Thanks for that by the way, I’m pretty sure they have phones in this gaudy place you know, it wouldn’t have killed you to dial a few numbers to let us know you’d be over a couple of hours late. But it’s whatever; glad you’re here really. The sunshine you brought with you when you walked through the door was well worth the wait seriously.” He stared at me with pure anger raging in his eyes but I was on a roll here. “Oh but don’t worry we were all having a good time getting to know each other right? I mean Jacob is a regular Chatty Cathy, I thought he was going to go on forever. Seriously, Jacob silence is a virtue sometimes keep that in mind. And wingus and dingus over there were just gushing with excitement, I mean I heard that the Japanese were bubbly and cheerful but they were on a whole other level.” Eru stood up, ready to attack when his sister held him back. Letting out my frustrations may not be appropriate but it sure as hell made me feel

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