Milk Run

"Milk Run" by Robert Donald Locke is a science fiction story about a space freighter and its crew whose ordinary cargo route is flipped upside down by a bizarre twist of fate: an encounter with an ancient alien race called the skags. The journey of Captain Jock Warren, along with officers Charlie Guhn and Mark Caldwell aboard the freighter Star Rover, takes the readers from a predictable transport run between planets Rigel and Earth to a realm filled with alien interaction and cultural surprises. A misstep by Captain Warren leads the crew into the path of the skags. As tensions ease, an unlikely friendship blossoms between humans and this ancient species, and Lieutenant Guhn reconsiders his role in the vast emptiness of space after this surreal experience. Humorous and thought-provoking, the narrative explores themes such as friendship in the face of the unknown.