Science Fiction: Welcome to my Worlds

“Daddy, what are you going to call this place? It needs a name that will stick in people’s heads since it’s practically in the middle of nowhere.” She looked out the window at the empty road in front pointedly. “Shouldn’t you have asked your brother about locations and such before you bought this?”

He had already heard from his brother on the subject. His email hadn’t spared the adjectives in describing either his choice or his judgment in picking the location. But, until he discovered how much of his unasked-for talents Missy had inherited, it was the perfect place to keep her out of trouble and keep others from coming to accidental harm from her. Not knowing how to get started on an explanation of that, he decided to answer the first question. “I was going to put up a big sign with ‘Motel’ on it.”

She looked like she’d just spit out a bug. “Motel?! You can’t just call it ‘Motel’. That would be like naming a restaurant ‘Eat’!” She reached down to pet the cat that dropped in and made itself at home the day they arrived.

He hadn’t really given it much thought. “How about Motel 6 then?” Rajiid gave her a little grin and patted the cat's paw with his finger.

“No good. Someone already has that name. You’d get sued.”