Sci-Fi Space Opera: "Old Mans War, The End of All Things"
“It’s not like you live down the road.” She frowned for a moment. “How did you get here, anyway?”
“It’s classified.”
“I’m close enough to stab you with a fork.”
“I used a very small experimental craft.” “A flying saucer.” “More like a space dune buggy.”
“A ‘space dune buggy’ doesn’t sound very safe.”
“It’s perfectly safe, ninety-eight percent of the time.”
“Where did you park it?”
“I didn’t. It burned up in the upper atmosphere and I did a jump the rest of the way down.”
