Dark Skies
Dark Skies
Days of Light and Loving
December 30, 2021
The Plutocrats
“On Pluto, they celebrate Christmas five days later,” Allison Cantigny says to Odetta Supernaw.
“Why is that?” Odetta asks.
“Because it takes sunlight five days to reach Pluto. So they have to wait five days. Make sense?”
Odetta taps on her iPhone.
“I think you mean five hours. It takes five hours for sunlight to reach Pluto. Not five days, Allison.”
“Oh.” Allison feels stupid. “Does that mean we have to cancel the party?”
Odetta sees that a thousand space aliens have lined up outside the door. They come bearing gifts.
“No,” Odetta says. “But we will need more chairs.” --TK
Thursday, December 30, 2021