(JaiChai) "Little Bill, the wormhole and the radioactive fruit" - Original Sci-Fi and Digital Art

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Although he'd seen it many times before, the sight of the hungry wormhole still amazed little Bill, William Suankhularb, Jr.

The first wormhole appeared on January 31, 2025.

He knew this for a fact; mainly because it was his birthday AND the day his father, Dr. William Suankhularb, mysteriously disappeared after leaving his job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory compound.

But now after 12 years, everyone but little Bill and his mother have long forgotten about Dr. Suankhularb, the brilliant JPL physicist.

At first, scientists thought the "city-swallowing cloud of nothingness" was a previously unknown type of Black Hole.

But the presence of swirling, vivid colors, the absence of any noticeable event horizon and the survival of all mechanical exploratory probes made them recategorize the phenomena as a "wormhole".

After the second wormhole appeared in 2026 (and annually thereafter), a sexy Latina Weather Person on Russian TV started the trend of naming the wormholes in the same fashion as tropical storms and hurricanes.

This year's wormhole is named "Juanita" - in honor of the aforementioned Latina hottie Weather Person.

[Back to the present.]

Little Bill placed the dozen glowing oranges that he'd just stolen from the Chernobyl fruit packing plant on the ground and waited for the wormhole to get larger and closer.

Unlike everyone else, little Bill and his mother never leave the village during the annual wormhole evacuations.

Even though the wormhole stopped swallowing up living things three years ago, officials still enforce little Bill's village to perform a yearly evacuation.

Why does Bill stay behind while the others leave?

Because he needed to do something very important.

You see, when Bill was nine y/o, he was inadvertantly left behind during an evacuation.

On his way back home from the fruit packaging plant, he encountered the wormhole.

When the wormhole got closer to him, the defiant little boy shouted, "I'm not afraid of you. I hate you 'cause you took my Daddy away! You can either take me to him now or just go away!"

His anger blocked out any fears of being the Wormhole's next victim.

While throwing oranges at the wormhole, Bill shouted, "You're a bad wormhole You took my Daddy away! I hate you!"

After launching about a dozen or so oranges, Bill was exhausted. He just sat there with tears in his eyes and kept thinking about how much he missed his father.

Then something strange happened.

The Wormhole began to shrink. And within a few minutes, it was gone.

Scientists around the world can't explain the Wormhole's behavioral change.

Why all of a sudden, did the Wormhole stopped scooping up pets, people and plants.

In fact, for the last three years, the Wormhole would appear, stay for a few minutes and then abruptly leave.

Nothing is harmed or taken.

But little Bill is convinced that he's the only person that knows the real reason why the Wormhole did what it did before and does what it does now.

To him, it was simple: "The Wormhole was hungry".

Is it a coincidence that the Wormhole stopped eating people the same year that little Bill threw the glowing oranges at it?

Who knows?

BTW, those radioactive oranges were the favorite fruit of little Bill's father.

Imagine that?

[Submitted for your entertainment.]

May you and yours be well and loving life today.

In Lak'ech, JaiChai