Elemental Sisters

By Douglas Green

A husband, wife, four newborn daughters and the nanny, Rina, were traveling through space on a family trip to the wife, Eva's, home planet, Creed. They were traveling to Creed to celebrate the birth of their four beautiful daughters: Khaleesi, Fiona, Katana and Chi-Chi. Eva and the father, John, were geneticists by trade. Eva asked her husband if he could plot a faster course home. He plotted the course through a wormhole because it would cut three days off their five-day trip to Eva's home planet, Creed. She paced the deck, eager to see her mother, whom she hadn't seen in ten years. She wanted to celebrate the birth of her four daughters with her mother. As the wormhole opened, John guided the small cruiser in at a fast rate of speed without slowing down. The ship's impact alert roared as John switched the ship to manual control.
Before he could see what was on a collision course with the ship, something large hit the ship, tearing a great hole in the side. The ship spun out of control.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Nov 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543994223

Douglas Green

Douglas Green is the author of the 2020 novel A Dog of Many Names. He runs the advice website AskShirelle.com, inspired by the first edition of The Teachings of Shirelle. He directed the 2000 film The Hiding Place before authoring books, and now spends his days working with teens and children as a psychotherapist in LA.

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The Trip Home

The year: 3010

A husband, wife, four newborn daughters and the nanny, Rina, were traveling through space on a family trip to the wife, Eva’s, home planet, Creed. They were traveling to Creed to celebrate the birth of their four beautiful daughters: Khaleesi, Fiona, Katana and Chi-Chi. Eva and the father, John, were geneticists by trade. Eva asked her husband if he could plot a faster course home. He plotted the course through a wormhole because it would cut three days off their five-day trip to Eva’s home planet, Creed. She paced the deck, eager to see her mother, whom she hadn’t seen in ten years. She wanted to celebrate the birth of her four daughters with her mother. As the wormhole opened, John guided the small cruiser in at a fast rate of speed without slowing down. The ship’s impact alert roared as John switched the ship to manual control.

Before he could see what was on a collision course with the ship, something large hit the ship, tearing a great hole in the side. The ship spun out of control. It damaged the reactor core, and large amounts of radiation spewed out. Eva sealed off that part of the ship from her control panel. It destroyed all the ship’s escape pods except one.

What are we going to do? Eva asked.

There is nothing we can do with only one escape pod. This is our fate, so we get to perish together with honor, he replied.

We cannot let our babies die like this. At least put them in the life pod, and eject them from the ship, Eva pleaded.

They are only five days old, and they will not survive. We are in a wormhole with no direction on where we are, and we can’t eject the girls out into uncharted space, John said.

We could squeeze Rina in the pod with them, and that would give them a fighting chance.

John stared at Eva only to see love and sorrow in her eyes just as the ship stopped spinning, and he regained control. He reduced the ship’s speed and put it on autopilot. Unbuckling his safety harness, John exited his command seat. Eva unbuckled hers and pursued her husband. They rushed down the