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    Cocoon Master
    Cocoon Master
    Cocoon Master
    Ebook37 pages33 minutes

    Cocoon Master

    By Leo Elsinger

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    In a not so far away future, right on this planet Earth, lives Rekmet, member of the mantis-like race that conquered the earth. Rekmet is cocoon master, and one of the best. But his performance is less than adequate these days, because his wife is on a space trip - and the ship has not contacted Earth for too many days. Rekmet refuses to mourn, and also refuses facing the consequences of that. For all members of their race are obliged to mourn. In order to survive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeo Elsinger
    Release dateFeb 10, 2012
    ISBN9781465708359
    Cocoon Master
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    Leo Elsinger

    Read a weird story from a European writer lately? Enjoyed the rhythm and melody in the story, together with the plot and the characters? Leo Elsinger publishes for years in The Netherlands now, and selected with his agent the stories that will appeal most to the Anglo-Saxon market. Read and enjoy.

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      Cocoon Master - Leo Elsinger

      Cocoon master

      Leo Elsinger

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2009 Leo Elsinger

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This e-story is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this e-story with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this story and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

      Thank you for respecting my hard work.

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      This entire abode oppresses me. Now more than ever. It is too cramped, there are too many walls. One big room, that’s what I want, one big room for everything: eat, sleep, talk think mate bathe work. But I have to wait because I don’t know whether … –

      With three hands he pounds the wall, feeling the vibrations of the sturdy resin bone interfere with the immersion show he is experiencing through his receiving hood. No, there’s another effect in the show. A text field appears at the bottom left of the screen. Then, interrupting the music, a voice says, ‘Rekmet, are you there?’

      Of course I’m here, you silly cow, but I don’t want to see you. Rekmet are you there. Can’t you see I’m here why are you following me around you know that … – Rekmet sighs and pulls the hood from his head. The loud base still vibrates through his upper hands, the howling high notes degenerate to a sharp grating, emanating from the hood. The sickly smell inside his work room, left uncleaned for too long, soon makes him forget the ethereal air from the show, and dirty walls replace the panoramic scenery of the lifeless rocks on Planet 36.3, Stagtaband’s favorite venue for their immersion shows.

      The panel in his work room slides open and Sahash is standing in the doorway, holding a steaming cooking bowl in her bottom hands. Rekmet’s gaze slowly travels up her body, from the profoundly bent legs that make her look like a newly hatched, up along her wide, protruding pelvis and her tight body, wider and a deeper green than that of … – with her bottom arms trained to be more muscular than her upper arms, until his gaze rests on her head, just a little too narrow to be beautiful and tapering into the weird peak of the southerners.

      ‘What are you doing here? Did I let you in?’

      Sahash remains impassive under his gaze and lifts the cooking bowl. ‘Cat sauce. I brought you an entire bowl full. I have some for myself in my own abode.’

      ‘You’re not answering my question. Did I let you in?’

      Sahash

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