Back in September, I entered the Fall 2019 Three Cheers And A Tiger contest from Toasted Cheese.

Entrants were given 48 hours to write a story based on the prompt: “Write a fantasy or science fiction story under 5000 words that opens with something needlessly dramatic, which becomes actual drama when…”

Comedy science-fiction isn’t really in my wheelhouse, but I decided to give it a go – and I won!