Another Short Story - Jewels
I seem to be in a contest frame of mind at this time. This time the length was 350 words. Also, it had to be scifi this time. I wasn't planning on doing one yet, but this was a nice little trip into that subject. They are currently voting over at DA so I'll have to come back and tell you how that turned out. :) Until then, here is the story I submitted. === Jewels “Sir? Sir?” I heard a woman say. I was happy where I was, but her voice was insistent. I opened my eyes but the bright light made me close them instantly. I then tried slower so I wouldn't be blinded. “We've landed Sir,” the flight attendant tells me. She was wearing a retro orange outfit that the airline was using to bring back the perceived elegance of the early nineteen sixties. “We will start teleporting soon,” she informed me as I stretched and yawned. Once she turned away, she found another passenger in their pod to rouse. I woke up my tablet and saw that I had a message from Ryan saying that...