Tag Archives: Dave Zacker

DAVE ZACKER: The Haunted Surfboard

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The garage-sale guy took $5 for his old, banged up surfboard.

First time out, I wiped out big when two bloody skeleton hands gripped the board from the underside and flipped it, and a glowing skull popped out of the water and laughed at me.

My girlfriend garage-saled the board for $10!

Dave and his wife, Kate, moved from sunny California to historic Pennsylvania. He enjoys writing among the pristine farmlands, but he misses the blue Pacific and In N Out. His previous stories have appeared in Fifty Word Stories.

DAVE ZACKER: Monsters on Alpha Centauri IV

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Escaped through the hatch!
No time for my suit.
No time for my helmet;
No time for my boots.

I’ll chance it outside,
It’s Earth-like enough;
Four light-years’ travel
Is making me tough.

I must save this mission.
Plain to see:
They’re changing into Centaurians,
The whole crew except me.

Dave and his wife Kate live in rural Pennsylvania with their two hungry rescue cats. His work has appeared in Fifty Word Stories. He’ll always be thrilled remembering seeing Space Shuttle Columbia land at Edwards in 1983.

DAVE ZACKER: Space Elevator

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“Eight, please,” I said politely to the old man standing next to the control panel as I entered the elevator. He pushed the top button, instead. Suddenly, I was scrunched flat to my knees from an immense upward acceleration.

“We’re way past the moon, now,” the old man said, calmly.

Dave and his lovely wife, Kate, and their two hungry rescue cats live in the Pennsylvania countryside, where he enjoys working on his novel about distant planets and flying saucers.