50 WORDS

Capitalism! In! Space!

Fifty Word Challenge #28: Life on Mars

Photo taken by the author at an exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Space History

The brochure promised “An experience unlike any other…it’ll be out of this world!”

I was ready for a change in my life, so I signed up.

Turns out the indentured servitude it took to get a ticket to Mars wasn’t really that different than the rat race here on Earth.