Topic Tag: Inhospitable

Topic Tag Tuesday returns with an all-new story about love and sacrifice in a hostile land…

For the fifth day in a row, Lisa woke Barney up at three in the morning by sighing loudly and rolling over in the covers until they came right off him.

"You awake?" she asked suddenly.

"I am now," he grumbled, pulling some of the covers back.  "What's going on?"

"I'm hungry."

He rubbed his eye, sat up, turned on the light.

"Fried goat again?" he asked.

"No," she said.  "That'll make me ill."

"Then what?" he...