Tyche
Copyright© 2020 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 11
Company paid the shot ... for all of us.
Frank came back with the golden ... umh ... turd ... brick ... whatever. “I weighed it on the kitchen scales. Today’s gold fix is close to 62,050.00 a kilo ... rounding down ... two kilos is worth damn close to One hundred twenty Thousand dollars.” The Thousand was a squeaky shout.
He wiped his face with a greasy grill towel.
Ernie said, “I can’t give you change ... I don’t have anywhere near that much.”
“How about you feed the four of us until it’s gone?” said Company.
“Today ... five of you came to 32 plus tax ... Ms. ‘One of everything,’ here...” Ernie gesticulated dramatically at the silver saucer, “ ... spent three hundred and ninety dollars...”
“Worth every dollar,” said Company.
“ ... plus tax.” said Ernie, a little miffed at being interrupted.
And that’s what they did. Surprise, Junior, Tyche and Company ate dinner every night at The Antler. Company was spending a minimum of two hundred and fifty bucks a night ... until she overdosed on an ‘experiment’ Ernie cooked one night.
Corned beef and cabbage ... and it was gooder ... had reacted to what ever stomach an alien spacecraft has ... it wasn’t as bad as alum pickled cucumbers that had been fermenting for six months ... but it was nearly as bad as the time she had the gold fever. And that was enough for any silver saucer.
It was bad enough that Company was banned from Pentwater for a week. She spent the last week of December in the National forest east of US 31.
The spot she retired to was just that ... a spot ... it showed up on Google Earth. A forty acre ‘dead spot’ in the middle of the woods. Nothing grew on that spot. The spot had a ‘Notice to Airmen’ on the charts for almost 70 years. The area wasn’t ‘radioactive’ ... per se ... but the odor that had permeated the earth did ‘things,’ as the soil worked to regain a balance, to aircraft engines. That took a couple of crashes before scientists discovered... ‘mostly’ ... what was causing the engine failures. Usually it was just a blurp and a restart but there were those few...
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