The Mightiest Man
The Mightiest Man
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The aliens had gone by then, only a few shining metal huts in the Siberian tundra giving mute evidence that they had been anything other than a nightmare.
It had seemed exactly like that. A nightmare in which all of Earth stood helpless, unable to resist or flee, while the obscene shapes slithered and flopped over all her green fields and fair cities. And the awakening had not brought the reassurance that it had all been a bad dream. That if it had happened in reality, the people of Earth would have been capable of dealing with the terrible menace. It had been real. And they had been no more capable of resisting the giant intelligences than a child of killing the ogre in his favorite fairy story.
It was an ironic parallel, because that was what finally saved Earth for its own people. A fairy story.
The old fable of the lion
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The traitor had betrayed the human race to the aliens, and they rewarded him with immortality and the ability to torture, paralyse, and kill with his mind. The traitor is caught and put on trial, but what can they do with him or to him?
A grim little story.
A grim little story.
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Little gems like this make all the sifting worthwhile. What more can I say?
06/18/2007
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FEATURED AUTHOR - Alice K. Boatwright is the author of the Ellie Kent mysteries, which debuted with Under an English Heaven, winner of the 2016 Mystery and Mayhem Grand Prize for Best Mystery. The series continues with What Child Is This? and In the Life Ever After. Alice has also published other fiction, including Collateral Damage, three linked novellas about the Vietnam War era; Sea, Sky, Islands, a chapbook of stories set in Washington’s San Juan Islands; and Mrs. Potts Finds Thanksgiving, a holiday parable… Read more