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Set your story after aliens have officially arrived on Earth.

Posted in Science Fiction on Aug 4, 2023

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Toby and the Alien

Submitted to Contest #210

Toby and the Alien I hear the top stair creak and then, ‘Who are you talking to, Tobe?’ ‘No-one.’ I sit perfectly still. I’m not ready to share my new friend yet. I found him in the front garden a couple of days ago looking lost. He asked for my help and has stayed. I call him Quip because that’s the nearest I can get to pronouncing his name. We are getting on just fine. He listens to me. ‘I thought I heard voices, is all.’ Mum persists. She opens the door just a crack and peers in. ‘I’m about to make lunch but I think you need to tidy...

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Earth Day 2080

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“Is the camera on?” said James Botson, a news reporter with the New York Times. He was then looking into a giant television camera, which was overlooking a field in Jasper, a suburb of New York City, in the United States. The level of anticipation was high. People had come from miles around to see what was happening. Further afield, there was a unique object standing in the grass. It looked like a rocket, but it wasn’t something that you could quite look at. The entire thing was covered with a surface that fumbled the eyes. One didn’t know...

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Farmer Finds UFO in Iowa Cornfield

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Duane Anderson, owner of the 200-acre farm on Sullivan Road, needed to get out of the house. It was a day of unique promise that was slipping from his grip under the influence of the TV screen. Frannie, his wife, was already installed on the sofa, a cup of coffee in one hand and a pop tart on her lap, watching the early morning talk shows. The Doctor wanted her to get more exercise, get outdoors, get the circulation back into her legs. What to do? What to do?“I'm gonna check on the corn”, said Duane, “I’ll be back so...

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Uncle Dan

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Uncle Dan was always annoying but on the rare occasion he was right about something, he was completely unbearable. For years, actually decades, he invariably took over Thanksgiving dinner with tales of flying saucers and abductions and unnecessarily graphic descriptions of orifices being probed as our family passed the turkey and mashed potatoes around the table. He’d take out his phone and play old clips of him calling into Coast to Coast AM discussing his theories and experiences with George Noory. I swore if I had to hear about how he met...

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A Burden Unbearable

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The young boy sat with his head against the cold window. The pitter-patter of the pouring rain fostered a wondrous curiosity within him, evidenced by the glimmering shine in his eyes. But he sat looking at the boy. Sunken-faced, the wrinkles around his once boyish cheeks growing more furrowed, he sat on his chair with his unwavering gaze set on the boy. Benumbed by his frightening contemplation, he sat staring at the boy, worried for the world he was to leave that innocent soul. For he knew, that while the boy simply heard the patter of the ...

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Micro Plasticities

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-2123- No one knew when they had arrived on the planet, maybe they evolved naturally.  Too small to see, and too smart to get caught under a microscope.  It’s ironic how much time we spent looking for aliens among the stars when there was an entirely unknown, intelligent species living amongst us.  Year after year the world got more crowded, the climate got hotter, pollution increased, and plastics started to outnumber plants.  In the early 21st century we became aware that microplastics had invaded all major ecosystems...

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Feline Alien

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Nellie awoke, momentarily disoriented. The last thing she remembered was sitting down in her recliner to watch her favorite soap opera, ‘Passion and Pride’. Now the closing titles were scrolling past and it was almost dark outside. She stiffly scrambled upright, annoyed with herself. The main character Stephanie had just been about to find out that she had married her fiance's identical twin brother by mistake. Nellie hoped her friend Henrietta had watched the episode and could tell her what happened. Her grandson Jack had offered to show he...

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Molt

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Molt Yogi’s first molting season was upon him, and he didn’t know how it would go. His superiors had assured him that the Earth’s temperature range, length of day, and amount of daily sunlight variations were close to those on his home planet. He would do fine. And he had, so far. But he couldn’t be sure those factors would be enough for what was about to begin. The outer layer that wrapped his body was a close analog to microscopic bird feathers. The feathers were so tiny they were indistinguishable from human skin cells, and they were ...

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THE PRICE OF PEACE IS ONLY A FEW BILLION DOLLARS

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THE PRICE OF PEACE IS ONLY A FEW BILLION DOLLARS There is an infuriating silence that fills the void of your thoughts when you emerge into the excruciating realization that the world you thought you knew, never really was. I remember the sweet surrender of the velvet sky to the illuminated brilliance of city skyscrapers one somber summer night. I remember the wet kiss of the evening breeze as I hurriedly counted my money to purchase a remedy to my parched throat. It was my last five-dollar bill spent on a cold bottle of water. My hands sho...

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They Are Already Here

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They Are Already Here By Kyle Meeder I can’t say for certain how long they have been here. They’ve been with us for as long as I can remember and likely long before I was even born. The creatures hairless and odd they are are truly of a different breed. It really only takes one a few moments of observing the other creatures that inhabit our world just to see how out of place these creatures from space really are.  From my neighbors I often hear rumors and hearsay of their origins. They came from the sky in a golden blaze and they ch...

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The Promotion

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 President Richard Nixon sat at his desk with his hands over his eyes. First his secretary brings him burnt coffee, and now this.          “So, you mean to tell me”, he said slowly, “that you three have come all this way to give us a promotion?” The little green man squatting across the desk nodded and fitted a pair of pince-nez to the larger of his two noses. Nixon thought he looked like a hag that has suddenly decided to become a librarian.         &n...

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They Came in Peace

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I can’t even remember the Sun. ...... It had been the strangest thing when the aliens had landed, because very little actually changed. We felt them in the vibrations of the earth long before we heard them. We heard them as a low thrumming drill deep in our skulls long before we saw them. They flew in in their great grey spaceships by the thousand. Each as large as a city and perfectly cuboid, their steely surfaces glinted evilly in the sunlight as they hovered, before descending as vast metallic falcons upon their prey. Their per...

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Aliens of the Universe v Earth Superior Court Case #26401

Submitted to Contest #210

           It began the way most world altering events begin, with a temporary flash of media attention followed by public boredom and indifference. Maybe if we had been a bit more interested in the proceedings occurring in a New York civil court room and a bit less on the never ending presidential election coverage, mass shootings and serial killers, our lives would have been different.Unfortunately, politics and murder generates much higher ratings than a simple tort case. &n...

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The Outsiders

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Dear Future Explorers,What you have discovered is a time capsule from the mid-21st Century, which I know will be strange to you as the concept of time has changed in my own lifetime and this custom is long out of use. But elementary students are still required to learn manual writing and they still bury things to learn the importance of digging up the past. So I, Dr. Lewis Degrassi have been asked by Mrs. Marshall’s fifth grade class to include this journal which the students themselves will never read. I predict that by your time there will...

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Seven Unwanted Apologies: An Autobiography

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There was a study done in the mid 2000s that reported the average person apologizes around 3,000 times a year. I was ten when the data was gathered so my input wasn't included, but I know it would have drastically skewed the results. Even then it felt like my life was a cluster of "I'm sorry" and "Forgive me" with a person somewhere in the middle. As if my existence was such an inconceivable mistake I had to constantly atone for. But you probably want to hear about the aliens, don't you? It's honestly pretty boring. They invaded twenty...

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