blue jones woke up.
it took him a few seconds to remember who he was and what he was.
and what his purpose in life was.
he was the unluckiest guy who ever lived.
and he hated the whole human race.
especially rich people.
anybody who had more money than he did was a rich person.
and famous people.
anybody who had ever had a story about them in the media was a famous person.
and people who thought they knew everything.
which was just about everybody in the world.
with all that settled, he decided to get dressed and go downstairs and get a cup of coffee.
on the way down in the elevator he thought about the screenplay he was thinking of writing.
in the story, aliens had conquered earth and enslaved all the humans in it.
all the humans were now equal. the people who had been rich and famous and knew everything were just slaves like everybody else.
the aliens were ruled by a beautiful evil queen. one day she got bored and decided to leave earth behind.
but before she went, would she free the humans or exterminate them?
for her amusement, she decided to stage a gladiatorial contest between one of her trained mighty bodyguards, and a human selected at random.
if the human won, the human race would be spared. but if the queen’s bodyguard won, the humans would be wiped out before the aliens took off for greener pastures.
the lottery was held to determine the human champion…
it was a guy named red white, who had been just a schmuck before the aliens came…
the elevator reached the ground floor and blue jones stepped out of it…
across the street, green smith woke up.
he remembered right away who he was.
he was the chosen one, born to save the misbegotten human race from itself.
and after he had his cup of coffee, he would get back to work on his book.
the book was called seven steps from hate, eight steps to love.
the seven steps from hate would show how the wrong ones - the racists, the sexists, the homophobes, etc - would be defeated and overcome.
the eight steps to love still needed a little thinking out, but he was working on it.
the book was going to transform the consciousness of the human race, and point the way to a new future.
it would make him, green smith, the most famous person on earth, and he would be besieged by admirers, and never know a moment’s peace again.
he thought he could handle it.
but first, the cup of coffee.
he got dressed and went out and got on the elevator and went down to the street.
when he got out on the street he bumped into blue jones.
oh excuse me, sir!
no, excuse me!
it was my fault entirely. a thousand apologies…
no, sir, i insist. it was all my fault…
will you two old fools get out of the way? some of us have the world’s business to attend to.
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