A Tail Of Space

By J.B. Pravda

Torn between the greater good of peace, at last, between peoples of differing cultural mores and traditions on the one hand, and his selfish concerns about posing as the chained primate in Grigori’s elaborately feigned appearance of insanity as his ticket home, Astronaut Simpson agreed to play Jocko the Surly Monkey in the upcoming television transmission back to Star City, Russia from the confines of an admittedly long past prime Mir, hoping earnestly that when his time came to return his prehensile tail would fit into his spacesuit.[1]


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At 88 words, this is officially the longest sentence yet in the illustrious DT&R annuls. Obviously, your life will never be the same.