About Love Saves the Day

Written by Alyx Shaw
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Love really does save the day in this Taste Test from Alyx Shaw. Old lovers reunite, lives change, and romance flourishes in all three stories.

From broke Brian who gets an unexpected call from old lover Roger, changing his circumstances completely, to the hilarious Sebastion, a space explorer who meets his match in the alien Tiff, to the melancholy tale of Vyllis, who lost his one love long ago and has tried to make a new life, thes stories will make you laugh, cry, and fall in love.

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There are a lot of things you can do with a Sferkkaan, and there are a lot of things you can’t do with them. You can’t make them pay attention. You can’t make them behave. You can’t stop them from taking the odd flying kick at your head when they’ve decided they’re annoyed or goofy or just want to see how close they can get to your ear with their boot blades. And you can’t stop them from being the most incredibly beautiful race of beings I’ve seen on any of the planets I’ve been to.

You can, however, expect them to suddenly decide to ignore you completely and go play when it’s raining, which it always is here on good old Sferkkaa. Fortunately, I’m not one of those people who becomes depressed by bad weather, or I would be out in the jungle right now on my hands and knees trying to find what’s left of my space ship. Not that I didn’t do just that when I first crashed here. I was lost for weeks, alone, scared out of my mind on the freakiest planet ever.

See, there’s no sunlight here – ever, just clouds and rain. In some seasons the clouds thin to a haze and the rain is a mist; other times of the year it’s nothing but black skies and pounding rain. So, in a way, being on Sferkkaa is like living at the bottom of the ocean. There are even small blind animals that radiate scintillating lights, and animals that hide in dens and wave little flashing lures. There are also strange plants, which feed off of sound energy instead of sunlight. They move quickly, angling their leaves towards the closest source of sound, the way the ones on Earth follow daylight.