Ad Astra…bucks
Sara hadn’t had a customer in two months, which was a-okay. Her cafe on the Harmonie asteroid was the only one within a million miles, so she could afford to charge $1000 for a coffee and pastry if anyone came. If not, she had time to read.
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Sara watched the spaceship approach. She put the coffee on and started baking muffins. It descended but landed several miles away. With binoculars, she could just make out a glowing green and white sign.
Starbucks.
No point in fighting it. She sighed and turned off the Open sign. Back to space piracy then.
The Green-Walled Treehouse 
No! Say it ain’t so!
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Well, that doesn’t have to be the end of the story. Maybe the Starbucks gets forced out before it can be joined by a McDonalds and a Walmart.
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And CVS.
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You’re back in the saddle David. 🙂
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Yep, I’m back. Hopefully I’ll be around more regularly for the next while. I meant to while I was away but you know how that goes.
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Absence makes the heart of the reader grow fonder. 🙂
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Huge fun
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Thanks, Neil. Glad you liked it.
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If there are bucks to be made in the stars, it’s no surprise! Nice one, David!
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Very true. Now I can see Starbucks being a spacefaring corporation in a satirical story. 🙂 Anything to make a buck.
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The competition has landed and spread across every town.
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Yep, it’s hard to get away from those types of chains. I’m sure if there are every moon bases, there will be a Starbucks there before long.
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where was the fighting spirit? she gave up too easily.
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It seems that way. Maybe she just knew you can’t win against a big corporation like that, or maybe she went over and destroyed the new Starbucks, then came back and turned on the Open sign again. 🙂 You can decide.
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Nice tale-spinning, David. Corporations are tenacious beasts 😦
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Awww…dammit!
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Dear David,
There’s no getting away from Starbucks, is there? Although 1000 is a little steep for a muffin and coffee. 😉 I guess in the Green-Walled Treehouse it makes sense.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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