’ ‘You idiot, walk in and show them who is boss.’ Wal spent the next six weeks with his arm in a splint. He’d never realized his mom could fig...ht dirty. He had her new husband in a headlock when she slammed the marble rolling pin against his upper arm, fracturing the humerus. He howled in pain and she was so sorry. When she returned with him from the hospital A&E she said he could stay. Later that week Dave watched his sister Judy making brownies and wished she would wear a nightdress that. He said he needed to talk to her urgently. She allowed him in.He looked her up and down. He said, "You look beautiful. Your future husband is a very lucky man."She asked what was so urgent, was there something wrong, was the priest not there? Did someone not show up? Was her fiancé having second thoughts?His face went from a smile to a look she had never seen before. He looked angry but was still smiling. "I have something I think you should see before you go down to get married." He turned on. .'She began leaning over, ignoring the sharp spikes beingpounded through her kidney, feeling her muscles strain asshe reached, reached, reached... until she collapsed backon the bed, starting to sob with disappointment."Oh, don't cry, Mom." Oh thank God, her daughter was here.Patti'd take care of her, make it all better. "It can't beall that bad, can it?" Patti, it hurts so bad this morning. It was sohorrible..." Brenda's voice trailed off, as she saw herdaughter had pulled out her compact and. This eventuality had been predicted, and mission control would have dealt with the problem, had not mankind been ravaged and civilization brought down by a devastating plague mere months after the launch.Roger and his colleagues continued their voyage, slumbering in stasis, unaware of the disaster that had befallen their homeworld. Their slumber continued, even after a massive meteor fell to Earth and destroyed all that remained of humanity, and any chance the astronauts may have had of being.