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    Eight Minutes Before the End of the World: Short Story
    Eight Minutes Before the End of the World: Short Story
    Eight Minutes Before the End of the World: Short Story
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    Eight Minutes Before the End of the World: Short Story

    By Judy Goodwin

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    It's never a good thing when an alien utters that fateful exclamation, "Oops!" A humorous tale of the end of things. And strawberries. Bonus short story included: The Emergence, a story of a sentient ship who will do anything to protect her beloved captain. Even if it means working with an alien threat.

    "Eight Minutes Until the End of the World" was first published in Another Realm magazine under the name Judith Boyer.

    Review from Gary Markett of Another Realm: "I like Jomocha Almond Fudge, myself . . . I also like this debut story by Ms. Boyer . . . a lot."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiamond Print Press
    Release dateApr 30, 2012
    ISBN9781476480350
    Eight Minutes Before the End of the World: Short Story
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    Judy Goodwin

    Judy Goodwin developed a passion for writing at a young age, creating picture books from the time she could read and write. She continued this passion throughout her schooling, earning her BA degree in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. Along with the passion for English came a love of all languages, and Ms. Goodwin went on to study other languages as well, including German, French, and Japanese. She spent time as an exchange student in Germany, which helped to develop her love of other cultures. She has published short stories in small press and online magazines including Space and Time, Dreams and Nightmares, and Beyond Centauri. With the advent of eBooks and indie publishing, she decided to move into the brave new world of publishing with the debut of her first novel, Heart of the Witch. Her second novel is anticipated at the end of 2013, entitled Journey to Landaran.

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      Eight Minutes Before the End of the World - Judy Goodwin

      Find out more about upcoming releases and Judy’s reviews of fantasy and science fiction books on her blog at http://judygoodwin.wordpress.com. Sign up for the mailing list with freebies and news (never spam) at http://eepurl.com/HMmh5.

      Science Fiction Story Two Pack:

      Story 1:

      EIGHT MINUTES BEFORE THE

      END OF THE WORLD

      Judy Goodwin

      ©2009 Judy Goodwin

      On the Tridak ship, battle alarms blared, jarring electromagnetic signals, sending Tiridaks scurrying on all six legs, rushing to correct the weapons system malfunction. Head of Tactical Il42 halted before Head of Operations, Ze948. There was a massive failure in weapons systems. We had to eject the antimatter torpedoes.

      Electromagnetic brain waves from Il42 were painfully long, betraying her horror to Ze948. Not a good sign. Can you fire proton matter to destroy the missiles before they hit the star of system 4789? Ze948 thought furiously for a way to avert disaster to the infant system, pacing the command deck.

      Negative. We should flee the system, Il42 responded.

      Head of Communications added her wavelength. Shouldn’t we try to warn the native intelligence?

      Il42 chirped a grunt. We’ve been trying to communicate with them for weeks. They don’t understand. Besides, it would give them little advance warning, and would only delay our escape.

      Second of Tactical rushed up to them. Impact is imminent! Permission to enter inter-dimensional space!

      Ze948 sighed, guilt and sorrow wracking her insides. We were having such progress with the natives. She directed her wavelength broadcast to the entire ship. Flee.

      The Tiridak ship winked out of dimensional space as the missiles hit the star, disrupting the fusion processes in the core.

      In the quasi-material state between dimensions, Ze948’s wavelengths radiated regret. Sorry, earthlings.

      In the back office, working on NASA’s latest brain child, the Mercury Probe Orbiter, John Fanchett sipped cold coffee and rubbed bleary eyes, watching display after display flash past his wall monitor hooked up to the probe’s datalink, sending the latest mission’s stats from just beyond Mercury. Stifling a yawn, he glanced at the time display in the corner: 6:12am Central Time in Houston. When he glanced back

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