Gord Zajac - Major Karnage

“Same place I was before. Except now I’m in space, coming for you.”

The glittering light grew brighter, and slowly resolved into multiple smaller lights. Karnage could make out the faint outline of a massive saucer-shaped ship. He watched it grow larger as it approached.

“I thought I was gonna die out here,” Karnage said. “I figured it was inevitable.”

“Nothing’s really inevitable.”

“I guess.” The lights grew closer. Karnage took a deep breath, then let it out. “Cookie?”

“Yes, Major?”

“I think we won.”

“I think you’re right,” Cookie said.

The ship’s dark outline grew larger, overtaking Karnage’s vision. The only stars he could see now were the artificial ones flickering and pulsing across the ship. They were all white.

“What the hell am I gonna do with myself now?” Karnage said. The lights coalesced together into a single spot of light. It flooded Karnage’s vision, bathing him in soft white.

“You’ll think of something,” Cookie said. “You always do.”

Special thanks to Sandra and Brett. I would never have found the courage to commit this story to paper without them.

Thanks also to Maxwell Atoms for Spragmos Industries, hoverballs, shark fin hair, and teaching me everything I could ever want to know about trepanation.

Most of Gord’s previous writing experience has been in television, but please don’t hold that against him. He has written for The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Evil Con Carne . He is the prolific author of one short story, one half of a novella, and this book. He lives in Halton Hills with his wife, Alicia Land.

www.gordzajac.com

ChiZine Publications

FIRST EDITION

Major Karnage © 2010 by Gord Zajac

Cover artwork © 2010 Erik Mohr

Cover design © 2010 Corey Lewis

All Rights Reserved.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Major Karnage / Gord Zajac.

ISBN 978-0-9813746-6-6

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PS8649.A39M35 2010 C813’.6 C2010-902883-X

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Edited by Helen Marshall

Copyedited and proofread by Brett Alexander Savory

MK numbers 1-4 originally published by Kelp Queen Press