Steal My Sunshine
Floyd Largent
When Lem Trapper reached his second set, he found a monster waiting. “Damn you! You humans ruined everything!” it howled.
Lem turned and ran. It chased after, screaming imprecations… right up until it fell into the pit. Then it started kvetching, like they all did.
Arvid Trader ran his fingers through the pelt. “Never seen the like. Some kinda bear?”
“Bigfoot. Talkers. Blame us for the moon fallin’ on the world back when.” Lem grinned. “This’un kept cryin’ 'bout missing ‘the warm.’ Claimed it used to be sunny here year-round.”
Arvid glanced at the thigh-deep Miami perma-snow and scoffed, “Hogwash.”
Floyd Largent