Our racism was strange to them and their racism was strange to us ( Read more... )

Yes. The aliens came down and harvested the human race. Yes. We asked them to ( Read more... )

Yes, the aliens were invasive. Savagely invasive ( Read more... )

The thing I like best about the other alien ambassadors on the galactic council is that they don't know that I'm ugly. Correctly identifying me as a human is hard enough, let alone identifying my attractiveness ( Read more... )

We didn’t realize until it was too late. Too much trust in the universal translators ( Read more... )

This particular first contact was confusing. All the aliens seemed to have the same name. At first we thought the translators were broken but it appeared that the aliens, thrilled at meeting another alien race, were all named Cruff. They looked at us through their many yellow eyes and wide smiles with different lengths of green hair ( Read more... )

You’d expect a physically challenged, mentally retarded child born with a life expectancy of six years to figure out a crude way of getting around. Some simple crutches, perhaps. Or maybe a box to drag oneself around in ( Read more... )

I was sixteen when they came ( Read more... )

Anyone or anything that enters the blue beams are sucked up into the ships and never seen or heard from again ( Read more... )

I wouldn’t even call it murder ( Read more... )