Found 13 works tagged 'Alien'.
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Whiter Teeth, Fresher Breath
Published Jan 17, 2021 · 3,976 words (15 minutes) · 151 views
Science Fiction allegorical vampirism #alien invasion Alien drugs dentistry consumer goods nightclubs
Author note: Caution: This story includes alien sex and dentistry (also alien). This was my first fiction sale ever, to David Pringle at Interzone, in the remote former lifetime that was 1994. I'll see if I can get the OK to post the gorgeous illustrations here.
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Sarah's Little Monster Hunter
Published Aug 11, 2020 · 1,299 words (5 minutes) · 209 views
Science Fiction Monsters Alien Tough Girls
Sarah and the adorable Monster Hunter Keefer do everything they can to send the Suneaters away, but can they vanquish the beasts before her parents make matters worse?
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Twiceborn
Published May 16, 2020 · 1,917 words (7 minutes) · 5 likes · 575 views
Horror Literary Fiction Science Fiction parasite contact Survivor Alien Alien Culture alien planet
Jackson, staring down the specter of extinction, chose his own human host carefully. But not as carefully as he’s chosen his “daughter,” a 7-year-old girl who will become his species’ last hope.
Author C. L. Kagmi studied neuroscience and worked in laboratory and clinical research for seven years before becoming a full-time editor and award-winning short fiction author.
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Notes From the Field
Published Apr 15, 2020 · 5,245 words (20 minutes) · 402 views
Science Fiction Alien sex first contact one night stands
What could be lonelier than being an alien investigator tasked with researching human interaction when you can't communicate with anyone who knows who you really are?
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The Boarder
Published Apr 6, 2020 · 4,745 words (18 minutes) · 2 likes · 1212 views
Science Fiction friendship Alien elderly
About a little old lady, an alien, and the faceless bureaucracy that brings them together.
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Questions Posed in an Alien Tongue
Published Jan 15, 2020 · 1,286 words (5 minutes) · 4 likes · 827 views
Science Fiction melancholy sci-fi Alien outer space
At age five, she survived a crash landing on an alien planet. At age twenty, she's charged with learning what brought her ship here. But the answers may permanently change her relationship with her keepers—or are they her captors?
Wendy Nikel, tea aficionado and flash fiction expert, has published dozens of short stories in venues such as Nature Futures, Daily Science Fiction, and Flash Fiction Online. Her time travel novella, THE CONTINUUM, is now available from World Weaver Press.
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The Willing Body, the Reluctant Heart
Published Nov 21, 2019 · 1,852 words (7 minutes) · 1 like · 599 views
A body collects friends heart, lung, and brain to seek out these strange new aliens who seem to have only one intelligence per body. AnLab Reader’s Choice Finalist! Printed in Chinese in Science Fiction World November, 2019
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The Beasts and the Birthday
Published Jul 25, 2019 · 5,157 words (19 minutes) · 4 likes · 1079 views
Science Fiction Alien intergenerational trauma
The beasts that changed the world came just before Georgia was born. Her family’s struggles to survive haunt them still — but, years later, a taboo birthday celebration might be enough to keep hope alive.
Author Marlee Jane Ward lives in Melbourne, Australia, and her work has appeared in Interfictions, Terraform, Apex, and more. The final installment in her award-winning Orphancorp trilogy is now available from Brio Books.
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Tomorrow, the Sunset Will Be Blue
Published Jul 14, 2019 · 990 words (4 minutes) · 6 likes · 878 views
Literary Fiction Mystery Science Fiction Romance jeremy szal Science Fiction Romance nature science-fiction Love tragic first person exoplanets death sad ending Alien
It’s not for everyone, but Sola and Benn jumped at the chance for a new life at a remote research outpost—one with deadly metal dust in the air and hauntingly magical sunsets. But that may all change thanks to a secret Sola can't quite bring herself to face.
Author Jeremy Szal is the fiction editor for the Hugo-winning podcast StarShipSofa, as his work has appeared in Lightspeed, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, and more.
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Mimicking Human Behavior: A field guide for extraterrestrial visitors
Published May 5, 2019 · 1,337 words (5 minutes) · 687 views
Humor Satire Science Fiction manners tourism alien abduction alien invasion Alien etiquette
A compilation of etiquette tips for alien species to follow on their first visit to the planet. A new installment in the series “I Was Abducted by Aliens in a Former Life”
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