The Last Laugh: A Short Story About How Life Sucks.

By Gary Johnson

The Last Laugh: A Short Story About How Life Sucks.

Like everyone, Erik Clag just wants to be happy. He’s almost forty so he just needs one break – something to go right for a change. However, he’s stuck in the monotonous ever turning circle of life. He works a dead-end job, with people he hates and for a boss he loathes, doing something a monkey can be trained for.

There is hope though – it’s time for his annual two-weeks holiday to Brighton. Somewhere to relax and not think about the day to day struggles. Not having to get up at 5:00 AM or listen to the constant clanking of the machines.

But he receives the call – he has to work instead.

Feeling lost and broken; he decides to do something which will hopefully change his life forever.

Suddenly, because of one small piece of paper everything turns into a surreal dream – his whole world is turned upside down. He ignores the phone calls from work and jumps on a plane instead.

However, we should be careful what we wish for. Everything doesn’t always turn out the way we want it. Fate has a wicked sense of humour.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gary Johnson
• Release date: Oct 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370838189

Gary Johnson

Gary Johnson began his career in 1964 at NASA Johnson Space Center as a project engineering in the Power Distribution and Sequencing Section for subsystem support of the Apollo sequencer system. Following various roles and responsibilities, last being Associate Director for Technical, Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate, he retired from NASA in 2006. From March 2007 to June 2010 he was an SAIC IPAO Contract technical consultant on the Constellation Program Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle Standing Review Board for Safety, and from June 2007 to September 2012 he was an SAIC Safety & Mission Assurance Support Services Contract technical consultant for Apollo and Space Shuttle lessons learned training and Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) S&MA Flight Safety Office assessments. As of October 2012, he has been an Aerospace Safety Consultant for J & P Technologies, supporting the SAIC Safety & Mission Support Engineering Services Contract to the NASA Johnson Space Center Safety & Mission Assurance Directorate, Flight Safety Office.

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