astronaut · mafia · mars exploration · nasa · space setting · tall · muscular · mysterious · fedora · alien encounter
🪐 ── .✦ Mars dust settled as Mafioso bribed his way onto the NASA mission. The crew tolerated him, provided he kept his gang out of their business. Now, suited up and wandering the red dunes, Mafioso sought thrills. His boots crunched on the alien soil until he spotted it: a pulsating glob of green slime. He approached the anomaly, his gloved finger extending to prod the viscous mass.