Orbits: A Collection of Short Stories and Minute Plays

By Dr. Anis I. Milad

Orbits: A Collection of Short Stories and Minute Plays is an entertaining and futuristic book about out-of-the-ordinary fictional characters who are not similar to the people who we meet every day.

The short stories and minute plays combine sci-fi futuristic view points and visions, humor, and philosophy. The book is about our world and beyond our passion, which people have for one another, and beyond the appreciation they share for the present, and their dreams they live in the future. The book is about our inner feelings, futuristic thoughts, hopes, disappointments, and imaginations to conquer the future and the complexity of the most imminent step forward to the future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524669447

Dr. Anis I. Milad

Author, composer, and a retired professor

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Published by AuthorHouse 01/28/2017

ISBN: 978-1-5246-6945-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5246-6944-7 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017901339

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Contents

Short Stories and Minute Plays

Split

Destination Jupiter

Witnessed

Planetary Flakes

Extinctions

Last Drop of Blood

Unwanted

Project Ambassador Zoe

Sudden Preexistence

Mars Our Home

Roswell

My Life and Wheel of Fortune

That Coast Guard

The Stage

King’s Court

The Cause

The Organ

The Promises

Hagerstown

Heaven

Indigestion

Standing Liberty

A Dilemma

Snatching Explorer

The Earthquake

The Plague

The Cold War

My Baby Daughter

Disturbance

The Time Trap

Project Mars

Quinn and Fadwa

Destruction the Extraterrestrials and Man

Orbits

The Beginning

The Invisible Matter

It Is Happening

Ring of Fire

Neolithic

The Keepers

About the Author

Short Stories and Minute Plays

Split

T he fact is that my life is going nowhere. I am not able to perform my duties in the military. I keep telling myself that I should retire. I am slowly dying. I hide my feeling from my wife, Jessica, and my 11 years old grandson, Johnny. I am a General in the army, 4 stars General. I receive every day reports about the situation in the Middle East, Iran, and other parts of the world. The people are acting crazy everywhere. Revolution after revolution and killing innocent people are now the norm on our planet. What is going on? I asked myself.

I probably am hallucinating if I say the sun is orbiting a black hole and we are passing by unfamiliar territories in the space. One day I read a report about the increasing of foreign or unearthly gases. These gases penetrated to our atmosphere from the space. Should I say that I was shocked? Of course, what would we do to clean millions of cubic miles of air? I actually I was terrified. We had a meeting with brilliant scientists and they claimed that the sun, including the earth, will make the corrections and the atmosphere will go back to normal.

I wondered how long time or years will pass by for the atmosphere to go back to normal. The gases in the space are suffocating our plant. We, as species, will end dead. Actually all biological creatures on the planet will end dead. This is not a problem but it is the end of life on earth. Can we do something about it? I go home and I see my grandson who lost his parents in a mysterious way, look at me and ask me for a solution. I told him the poisoning gases are penetrating the earth. I couldn’t lie to him.

I go my office every morning. My office is at the Pentagon in Washington DC and I stare to the reports, the walls, and I do not believe this is the end. Just I am not in my normal mind. The people knew from the media that the earth is in deep trouble. The poison gases are making people very quiet. No violence news is in the media. The cars were still operational, but we were helping ourselves to die faster.

Pollution is coming from within and from a condition that is completely out of our control. I should just wait or I should think for a solution. Here we go Johnny, I will think for a solution, hehehe!!!

What if?? Yes what if I can change the atmospheric gases and some kind of creatures absorb the poison gases! I might be able to convince Johnny but I do not think I will be able to convince the president of the United States. I called my wife from my office and I asked for guidance. She replied, it is a good idea but who has the mentality and the faculty to develop your ideas. No one right now is thinking normally about anything.

I left my office and drove to the White House. I was able to breathe in the White House. I asked the staff if I can meet with president. I was allowed to meet her immediately. She told me that the situation will last for hundreds of years and we will be vanished from this planet. I told her I might be able to help to convert the poison gases to solid substances which will reduce the harmful influence that is already happening in this planet. She asked how we will be able to convert millions of cubic gases into solid substances.

I said, this phenomenon is already keeping the earth healthy. I elaborated further; the plants in the forests are doing exactly that mechanism. The plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen during the day. The carbon dioxide and the other harmful gases are converted to the trunks and the leaves of the trees which are solid substances. The president said: This is a good idea for the gases that already on earth for millions of years. The gases that we are suffering right now are foreign gases and deadly gases.

She, the president, continued: I have an idea. We can change or adjust the DNA of the plants to absorb the foreign gases and to convert them to solid substances. Probably we will have substances that are different from the substances of the trees that we all knew. Woods probably will be other kind of biological matters. But how can we change the DNA that is responsible for absorbing the earthly harmful gases to absorb the foreign gases? I said, we can change the DNA by creating a liquid switch and to distribute it by airplanes.

The president informed the staff to communicate this information to the universities network and the bio-research laboratories around the world to begin to produce the DNA liquid switch in huge quantities and spray it over the trees in all forests around the world. It was the beginning. The president called for a conference and announced we have a solution for the current catastrophe. People around the world began to cheer and smile again.

People were exhausted but the hope for a new world gave them the energy to celebrate. It was not easy to develop the liquid switch. But the time was slowly improving the human spirit. I left the White House and I was happy to contribute a little bit of information that saved humanity. Oh Johnny!! He was waiting for me and curios if I found a solution. I told Johnny and my wife about the liquid switch and the reaction of the people around the world.

I could not sleep all night and I was surprised to know that Johnny was worry. Jessica told me Johnny asked her, what will happen to us if the earth were passing by the oxygen cloud in space? He thought that the oxygen will be overwhelming and will cause dizziness to people everywhere. I thought we did not survive the current situation completely yet and I do not think we will go through the oxygen cloud in the space during our life time or the next million years. What a crazy idea, dear Johnny.

The trees in the forests were responding to the DNA liquid switch. The climate was changing to a better condition. People were beginning to leave their homes and talk to each other on the street. The black hole was millions of light years from our beautiful sun but you will never know what will the future generations experience. I know we were able to overcome this astronomical problem and I know the future generations will be able to do the same.

The next day morning, I called my office and I told my assistant I will take the day off. It is the time for me to retire. It is the time for me to write my memoir and analyze the dark matter and play with Johnny. He was afraid to die young or to see us die. I am sure the creator of this universe will feel sorry for mankind.

I bought a telescope for Johnny. Sometimes I look to the sky and I see the stars which I used to see decades ago. I did not even notice any changes in the sky. The sun and the solar system are traveling in the space for millions of years and millions of miles. We here were able to adapt to a new biological systems. It seems that we now live in the beginning of a new era.

There is a way out, I believed. I want to retire to live beyond myself. I lived in the military and I believed we need to go to wars to live in peace. But now I want to live in peace to declare my war against the risk that could destroy the earth from the space or from the core of our planet. We need to live in peace to think of the real threats that we have never imagined.

People during the disaster were friendly, and I thought very soon the violence, wars, and killing one another will return to our societies. The results were fascinating. The trees and vegetable had new nutrition components. When people started to eat the food after spraying the DNA liquid switch, their behavior was associated with the new biological creation that is designed by mankind.

Now, Jessica and I are too old and Johnny just graduated from Johns Hopkins University.

Destination Jupiter

I am not sure about anything anymore. The climate is severely changing and the people around the world are acting crazy. Some scientists claim that the sun is orbiting the black hole and our galaxy is not in the same location and for this reason the climate is changing. Other scientists believe the galaxy is expanding and the orbits around the sun are not able to stabilize the climate on earth. What are we, human beings, going to do? There is no way to stop the sun from either orbiting the black hole or stopping the galaxy from expanding.

An elementary school science teacher is the teacher that shapes the children minds and it is hard to talk to them about the fact that sooner or later we will be dead violently. I am that teacher. I know our planet is not just a planet but it is an entity that is made of minerals and water. We are also are made of minerals and water. We are the creation of the sun and the earth. Both earth and humans are made of the same minerals, so why do we think that we can think but the earth or the sun cannot think?

This is my philosophy in life that I will lose shortly. The earthquakes are more severe than decades ago because of the drilling and the hurricanes are deadliest this year and in all our recorded history. We expecting the heat of the sun to be hotter than usual, but the facts are that the earth is getting colder. The distance between the sun and the earth is going farther and the ocean is quieter and scary. The clams and the oysters and other marines’ animals are not able to survive in the ocean.

I go to school every day and no one is talking about these new realities. The people on the streets are not looking around and their eyes are glassy. The moon seems to go farther from the earth and the moonlight is dimmer than it was months ago. We are all going deeper in space. There is no way out. We are getting closer to Mars and farther from Mercury and Venus. The days are going by and the world is way out of order. It is cold.

In the news today, it is snowing in Egypt and India. The atmosphere is losing its thickness and the majority of the birds are grounded. We are witnessing astronomical events and disasters. The Mercury is sucked into the sun and there is no longer Mercury in the solar system. We are going farther and deeper in space. The moon is no longer orbiting the earth. The ocean is quieter and scary. We are too close to Mars. What is our destination going to be?

The sunlight is still reaching us and this is a good thing, I thought. Where are we going? Thank God the earth did not end inside the sun. The scientists today announced that the earth lost its orbit and joint the orbit of Mars. But the distance between the two planets and Jupiter is going closer and closer to the Jupiter’s moons, Galilean moons of Jupiter. The people on earth developed thicker skin and body hair and fur because of the mutation of human genes.

The orbit of Jupiter absorbed the Earth and Mars. We are now orbiting Jupiter which in turn is orbiting the sun from a huge distance. The instability of the new system was great. The ocean began to freeze. There was a doubt among the scientists about the new system and if Jupiter will continue to orbit the sun. Recently, the sun and Jupiter were pulling and circulating each other. It seems that if these two forces will be scattered in space. Prayers were provided to the higher power.

We lost track of time. Destructions were everywhere. People did not need cloths to wear. The fur was covering the human body. I do not know how many months or years we have lived, but I know it happened in my life time. The scientist expected the tie between Jupiter and the Sun will not last because the distance between them is getting larger. We were wondering what if Jupiter is separated completely from the sun, where will we be going?

The universe is not really about the intellectual of people or God, but it is the intellectual forces that exist in the universe. We have an old solar system and now a new solar system. Jupiter violently is separated from the sun and kept going in deep space. The darkness hovered over the earth and the cold was unbearable. We do not know how long we stay floating in space. We began to see a star from a distance and it was getting bigger.

In our way to the new star, the earth passed in space cloud which supplied the earth with oxygen. The atmosphere became thick and back to the normal components. Jupiter all of the sudden orbited the new star and the earth and only the Galilean four moons were orbiting Jupiter which was orbiting the new star. The new star named the New Sun. The scientists agreed that the new sun is also a creator. After a long time, the scientists discovered there are human beings in the neighboring planets.

Also in my life time, the people of earth were able to visit the neighboring planet and learn their languages. They were advanced civilization. They discovered the God and the creator of the universe. The light of god is emitted by every star to light the space. God is rays and forces that are filling the universe. Well, let’s not talk about god. We, the people of earth, would like to think God is invisible. The strange thing is that the earth is a planet and one of the Jupiter moons.

I am still confused about my age. My body and my face are covered with fur. The neighboring human was losing the fur. They also told us they were orbiting another star and astronomical events brought them to this new star. They believed there is a purpose behind these events. Probably, they said, the desire of all creations in the universe to get to know each other. The creator arranged the possibilities to meet each other, they said.

I went back to school to teach the children and to remind them by the old sun. Life began again and the plants began to blossom. The smell of the air and the roses were blessings from the gods. The people of the earth decided to borrow the technology to build cars from our neighboring humans. The cars were environment friendly. I know the earth is minerals and water like me and you. I know the earth is not just a planet but it is an entity which feels and think. We came from the intelligent earth and we will go back to this entity and we are going to stay forever mixed with our mother earth.

I will say good night to you my dear friends. Remember the time that we spent in space traveling between stars. Remember Mercedes-Benz who initiated the destruction of the atmosphere on earth and the instability of the earth crust because the oil drilling when we were orbiting the old sun. Remember the time we spent listening to the extraterrestrials and now we are face to face conversing with them. Remember our old sun and the hole of the ozone layers. Good night my friends.

Witnessed

I was going work as usual and I had to walk to the subway station which was about one block from where I lived. I lived in a studio in New York City. I was an available bachelor who was looking for a woman to be my best friend and my future wife. I am a high school dropout and I worked as a janitor at senior citizen home. I used to celebrate my birthdays alone. The studio was felt like a prison cell. I had no friends but I had a sister who