"You Never Call" by Robert Lynn Asprin
From Read Me a Story, Ink by Robert Topp
December 2, 2025 · 12 min
About this episode
The episode explores the tension between two lifelong friends, a human and an alien, as they face an impending war and a humorous phone call from a mother on Mother's Day.
Two commanders, one human, one alien, have been best friends for a lifetime but now find their empires at war and with five minutes left in an ultimatum, five minutes before they blow each other to smithereens, a phone call? "Raymond?" "Mom?" "It's mother's day, you're too busy to call your mother?"
People in this episode
Host: Robert Topp
Topics covered
- friendship
- war
- communication
- family
- science fiction
Keywords
- friendship
- alien
- human
- war
- Mother's Day
- phone call
- ultimatum
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