Spaceman
Rob Walton


 When they locked him out of the house, he would sing “Fly Me to the Moon”.  When they locked him out of the school, he would sing “Space Oddity”.  They didn’t expect him to get the job at the engineering factory, but sometimes things go in other directions.  At the interview, he told them he’d been on three space missions.  They liked this.  Three months later, when they locked him out, he didn’t sing.  He climbed on to the corrugated plastic roof and fell through.  He landed on the record player, which was spinning “Moon River,” ready for his surprise party.









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About the Author: Rob Walton grew up in Scunthorpe, and now lives in North Shields, England. His short fiction and poetry for adults and children appears in various magazines and anthologies. His flashes are forthcoming in, or have been published by 101 words (US), Bangor Literary Journal, Blue Fifth Review (US), Flash Frontier (NZ), Ham, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Number Eleven, National Flash Fiction Day anthologies, Paper Swans, Popshot, Pygmy Giant, Reflex, Spelk, Words for the Wild and others. He is a past winner and current judge of the UK’s National Flash Fiction Day micro-fiction competition.

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