Rocket Men
11 min readFeb 13, 2022
By: Josh Embry
An old man sits on a bucket, peeling green beans. He hears a weeeeee-ahhhh sound slicing through the air and looks up to see a black ball of fire hurtling towards his farm. The man drops the beans in his hand and pulls his revolver off his hip.
“What is he pulling out of his pocket?” asks the small purple man inside the black ball of fire. He puts on a pair of square-rimmed glasses from a box labeled…