Drabble Cascade #78 - 'Delta'
Sep. 16th, 2014 05:26 pmTitle: The Place for Strangers (sci-fi, PG)
Author: charisstoma
Word count: 100
Aaron watched the delta shaped ship return to their settlement. They’d left him to negotiate with the planet’s inhabitants. Plopping a male into any defensive population was more likely get him killed was Aaron’s thought.
Brush rustled behind him.
“You have no breasts, how do you feed your young?”
Turning Aaron blinked at the speaker, “You’ve got both a cock and breasts. Which are you?”
“Which what?” was the confused reply.
“Inseminator or conceiver?”
“You’re not able to do both? ” The individual shook their head then smiled. “You can’t get pregnant! The brothels will sing praises to the gods.”