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When Strikes the Clock

from The Last Hero On Earth by Tom Smith

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ALISHAYA
Now, you have to time this exactly right.

GEORGE
But it will take me home?

ALISHAYA
This is transstellar flight.
Look in the Crossing --

GEORGE
Hey! Hong Kong, Bombay,
St. Louis, Toledo, and Mandalay!

ALISHAYA
You can go to whatever landing point you see,
But it changes each moment, so the timing's key.

GEORGE
Is there a way to control it?

ALISHAYA
There's a cosmic clock.

GEORGE
Hm. Currently set for Vladivostok.
... Excuse me? Hello? Can I set this hub
To the All-England Lawn Tennis-Croquet Club?

CROSSING
Crossing reset -- Nexus activate
In eleven seconds -- ten -- nine -- eight --

GEORGE
Alishaya --

ALISHAYA
George --

GEORGE
Thank you.

ALISHAYA
Thank you. You've got to go now.

["Seven -- six -- five -- four --"]

GEORGE
Al --

ALISHAYA
George, I --

GEORGE
Shh. Me, too.

ALISHAYA
I know.

["Three -- two -- one -- "]

[big whooshing SFX]

ALISHAYA
Everything I ever wanted, and I had to let him go,
But I never will forget him, and he'll think of me, I know,
Though a million light-years stand between us, he is still my friend...
I'll never be alone again.

[INSIDE the big whooshing SFX... sudden stop]

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from The Last Hero On Earth, released May 26, 2006
Princess Alishaya: Karen Underwood

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Weird Al with more books, JoCo with more jokes, Carlin with more Cthulhu. Since 1985, Tom Smith has been breaking hearts, minds, and laws of propriety and physics with his insane blend of sf/fantasy, Life With Computers, pop culture, politics, and puns. More than twenty albums later, he maintains the best is yet to come. ... more

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