Love Contraception

Cloudlets are magnificent specimens with a subtle blend of iridescent colors populating planet Codlet in a distant galaxy. They are a beautiful sight to behold as they float gracefully in the atmosphere. Cloudlets are able to synthesize complex thoughts unhindered by (almost all) emotions. Anger and happiness are foreign concepts to Cloudlets, although they are able to worry…and then there is that nagging problem of love. Each Cloudlet has a distinctive personality and shape, although the latter vary with atmospheric conditions; they communicate by electronic twittering due to rapid expansion and contraction of their chemical bonds. Cloudlets are benevolent creatures.

I hope you enjoy reading this short story, Love Contraception, which is in The Open Door and Other Tales of Love and Yearning, my first collection of short stories.

— Joram