Once upon a time, there was a spaceship, and his name was Rista. His friends from the shipyard called him Rista the earthworm, because he was the only one among them who was remarkably longer than he was wide. But Rista wasn’t just an ordinary spaceship. Rista was as fast as lightning, and even faster. Atrociously fast! Rista could travel through space so fast, that he could often see himself in the distance. Yes, Rista could also travel through time. He could probably travel even through pudding, if only there was someone silly enough to make so much of it. Rista liked to tell jokes while he was travelling, and he could speak very fast, to compensate the slowing of his personal clock when he starts catching up with photons. In his cargo space, there was always a lot of rum, for the jolly space sailors. There was also lemonade, for the sailors from out of his natal universe, because everything was upside down there, and so the sailors drank lemonade and never had fistfights.
One day, Rista had an idea to write down his memoirs. He did it in a few nanoseconds, but the captain said to him: „Oooh, my good Rista, my beard would grow as long as your exhaust pipe, if I was to read your whole memoirs. Hit one brief retell there.” And so Rista began to cut out, shorten, paste back and shilly shally over parts of his memoirs, and they all seamed equally important to him. He worked on it for very long, and had a really tough time doing it. From all that strain, he got stuck in some infinite loop, so they called a handy man to free him loose with a pair of pincers. The handy man also had a lot of trouble, but in the end he pulled Rista loose, and told him to look after himself in the future.
* Ok, it appears that I have invented the term „funnytale“. Excellent! It will represent a tale with humor in it, about fictional characters and happenings. You can attach certain adjectives to it, for example a sorry of Rista could be called a science fiction funnytale. There :)
# Pronounced „Reestah“
