Planet Eve: The Tale of a Sprout

By Helen Alexander

Short story about a planet whose inhabitants simply can't get along with each other. Not a day goes by without a war or at least a fight.
Sound familiar?

Things go as planned until Eve gets hit by another planet called Adam.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Helen Alexander
• Release date: Mar 8, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465814623

Helen Alexander

Helen Alexander is a writer and digital artist living in San Francisco, California. After graduating from the Academy of Art University, Helen worked as a video game artist in San Diego and Los Angeles. Currently she is back in San Francisco, at work on several new projects, including a comic book, a children's book and a dark fantasy/horror novel. You can visit Helen at helenalexander.weebly.com for updates, author interviews and previews of new stories and works in progress.

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Table of Contents

Planet Eve

Oslo

Oslo's Brilliant Idea

Flying

The Floating Army of Ubrik

Evol

Morning

Night

The Rebel

Land

Sundown

The End

Planet Eve

Long, long ago, when Oslo was still a very young Sprout and was incapable of complex calculations, critical thinking, or any other kind of harm, there was a beautiful planet called simply, Planet Eve. It was mostly covered by ice, as it was orbiting a bit too far away from the Big Star.

Oh, the Sprouts still lived there, but, as you can imagine, it was always winter on Eve, and so it was always very cold. The Sprouts made good use of Planet Eve by setting up various ski resorts and attracting travelers to visit Eve with bold advertisements that were suspended in space just above the planet.

You could see the shiny Northern Lights from anywhere on Eve and didn't even have to go to either of the Poles: they'd play beautifully like multi-colored cold flames across the sky, reflecting off the glistening, ice-covered surface of the planet.

But that was really, really long ago. All the Sprouts that gave rise to Oslo hadn't even sprouted yet back then.

Alas, Planet Eve wasn't meant to remain cold and frozen forever. One day, Eve was hit by a big, icy Comet, which brought her closer to the Big Star.

The Sprouts felt the big jolt and had prepared themselves for the melting of the oceans by building various boats and floating resorts and hotels. They also changed their advertisement billboards from Excellent Ski Slopes to Aquatic Hotel and Spa.

Soon all of Eve's ice melted and turned into a humongous ocean. Among all the vast stretches of sparkling, warm ocean there floated a multitude of islands and vast continents. They formed what we came to know as the different countries of Planet Eve: Maritania, Malaria, Ubrik, Canadia and Asbestos, among a few others that we shall not mention here for the sake of brevity.

The different lands were settled by the Sprouts