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Granny's SETI Goblin

Aine is on her way to a nursing home placement when her granddaughter gives her a toy goblin, but SETI has other ideas.

Royal Road 2024 Community Magazine Contest Entry Theme: Grandmas and Goblins Granny's SETI Goblin Aine is on her way to a nursing home placement when her granddaughter gives her a toy goblin, but SETI has other ideas.

Part of my Battle Of The Cubes project. This is a completed novelette, about 15,000 words.

Main characters: Aine, 65-year-old grandmother, Luna, 4-yr-old granddaughter, Gwendolyn, Mom, Andromeda the Goblin toy, 'Dromie' Original ONGOING Psychological Female Lead Sci-fi Contemporary First Contact

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"I don't want to go." I sat beside my daughter, who had the most miserable expression I'd seen on her in 19 years of life. She held a backpack with woefully little room for 65 years of my collection. Outside the window of the bus, I watched old mansions of Inman Park with their dead trees and bushes. I guess that's me, now. "Granny, I don't want you to go, either." Luna, my 4 year-old granddaughter, hugged me with her smelly goblin toy my daughter’s sorry ex gave her for her birthday last week. Already, her dog Bully gave his opinion of the toy, and no amount of scrubbing makes it smell better. “I decided you need Dromie more than I do.” She pressed the toy into my arms. A pointy ear snagged one of her twin braids.