Emmitt’s Encounter – A Science Fiction Short Story with a Twist

“In the wee hours of a midsummer morning, well before sunrise, something crashes in an alfalfa field, a stone’s throw from the back porch of an old adobe bunkhouse in a remote valley in the California high desert.”

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A thunderous crash jostles Emmitt from his recurring South Seas dream onto his decrepit, lonely reality. Pulling himself together, he grabs his shotgun and hunkers along a gouged path through an alfalfa field in the dark of night toward the smoldering wreckage of a disk-shaped craft and its enigmatic and diminutive pilot, who monitors his approach with a sly grin on his gray face. 

A quid pro quo turns a long-lost dream into reality while opening the door to a long-overdue family reunion.

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About the Lost Cactus Archives short story collection

Mythical and legendary short stories culled from top-secret files liberated from rusted cabinets and rotted file boxes at a long-defunct clandestine desert laboratory and research base known as Lost Cactus.

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