The Chronology of Titan

 As written in the style of the author, Kurt Vonnegut.

The Boston Terriers lived in a dome on Titan. They were the only ones there. The father’s name was Biff. He was the First Settler. His wife was Mildred. The air outside was mostly methane and nitrogen. They had a small garden of irradiated carrots. They ate the carrots. They had no one to complain to. And so it goes.

Christmas was to be December 25th, same as Earth. They had no chimney. They left the carrots out by the airlock, just in case. It was very damp inside the dome. Mildred finished her novel about the time-traveling dachshund. She knew nobody would ever read it, because nobody existed. 

Biff often stood by the thick poly-glass. He looked at the orange land, such as it was, the smeared shadow of Saturn, and missed green grass. He missed fire hydrants. They were Bostons. They had been assigned the moon. They just kept going. Merry Christmas.

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