Red World

This week’s story was written for the Trifecta weekly prompt, which was to write 33 words in response to the following snippet: “The first time I saw….”   So here we go.

The first time I saw Mars?  They were there first.

Green things: all slime. They tried to eat my spleen.

They gave chase; I thought I was done.

Then I found their death ray.

I kept my spleen.