Author

C.J. Maloney

C. J. Maloney spends his days working to fix incurable patients, and his nights dreaming of faraway worlds glimpsed through the fog of imagination. He has taken down a number of these ramblings, which vary from dark fantasy to slapstick science fiction humor. Just for DSF, he's added a page of his fictional work onto his medical website (chrisjlmaloney.com) which should raise the eyebrows of some of his patients but delight others. Thank you for reading, and giving him the rockets he deserves!

http://chrisjlmaloney.com/

She Missed Her Chance.

After locking her in, her stepmother blocked the attic door with an old armchair. The mice and sparrows had been useless, so she heaved and sobbed for over an hour. In desperation she sent the sparrows and mice to slow his exit, but they had driven him out instead. When she…