With apologies to Big Idea:
"Silly Tales with Peter"
Peter C. Jones

Silly Tales with Peter was first published as a post on the ChristSF mailing list as part of Evie's April 2004 writing challenge. Excerpts from the challenge, showing the basic idea:

  1. Some sort of Easter-season-related theme
  2. Some element(s) that make the entry "SF-related" in some way,
  3. Must contain at least two of the following words, passion, veil, cross, risen, incarnate, thorny
  4. And, just because this is my challenge, ... "When I fall on my face / With my knees to the rising sun." [or] ... your entry MUST contain some reference to a vorpal chocolate bunny (or the alien equivalent). Your choice. Or use both for bonus points. See if I care. :-D

Author: Peter C. Jones

First Published: ChristSF Mailing List, Thursday, 1 April 2004.

"What do you get when you cross 'when I fall on my face' with 'my knees to the rising sun'?"

"Confused. I think I get confused when you cross those two."

"Aww, come on. You take all the fun out of it."

"I know. Have a Krispy Kreme before the vultures get them."

"Now I'm the one that's confused. Wasn't that the last challenge?"

"So what?"

*auuuuuuuugah! auuuuuugah!*

"What now?"

"According to the sensors, there's a vorpal chocolate bunny approaching!"

o/' The bunny, the bunny, whoa I love the bunny! o/'

"Where's that music coming from?"

"The speakers."

o/' The Bunny, the bunny, Yeah I love the bunny o/'

"argh! Shut it off!"

"They're off -- but it doesn't seem to have any effect. Apparently, it's not really coming through the speakers."

o/' A big bag o' bunnies is all that I need o/'

"No, really?"

"It could be coming from Cocoa-Incarnate over there."

o/' I'll sit on my sofa eat bunnies all day o/'

*shakes head*

"Hey, something else is coming!"

"..."

"Oh, right, sorry. There's another ship approaching."

"..."

"The VCB is attacking the new ship, rather than us. Hey, and the music's stopped."

"Well, that's something. So, what's happening between the two ships?"

"The Vorpal Chocolate Bunny's just fired something at the interceptor... It looked like a giant pink-and-blue egg! The it's gonna blow!"

*flash*

"Wow. The bunny's melted! We're saved! But... oh, no. The interceptor is gone."

"That--"

"Wait. I think I see something. It's like a tear in the veil of space -- and a pure white light is shining through.

"And now... I think something's coming through. But no, now it, and the tear are gone. For a second, I would have sworn it was the interceptor, but that couldn't be."

"Are you so sure? This region of space has been shrouded in mystery for quite some time.

"Now, where'd I put my hairbrush?"

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