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You Never Call

Story Stats

Rating: 5
Grade Level: 5, 6, 7, 8
Page count: 6
Categories: Fantasy, Humor, Mothers

Author

Robert
Asprin

Appeared in

Myth-Interpretations

Story Summary

Two commanders, one human, one alien, have been best friends for a lifetime but now find their empires at war and with five minutes left in an ultimatum, five minutes before they blow each other to smithereens, a phone call? "Raymond?" "Mom?" "It's mother's day, you're too busy to call your mother?"