One original sci-fi story per day for all of 2023 | Created by screenwriter Timothy Michael Cooper, illustrated using A.I.

Tolerance

Tolerance

On our planet, you can be whatever the heck you want! You can be a red lizard with black spots who mates three times a lifetime. You can be a black lizard with red stripes who mates four times. Hell, you can even be a red lizard with black and red markings who mates up to five times! Any deviance from those colors or mating numbers means you’re a freak who’ll be left out in the midday suns until your epidermal scales wither and shrink over your desiccated bones. Yeah, we’re probably the most accepting planet in the entire galaxy.