There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known...

[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, and old people are a...

She needed him. More than just his blood or the pleasure he offered with his playground of a body, she needed him—and that was far more terrifying than becoming a blood sucking monster.

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

Look, lady, I’m not going to bullshit you. I need to smoke enough crack cocaine to communicate with aliens. Give me all the money you got!

Reluctantly, we had already accepted every challenge at the moment we were born. And as long as we live, we have no right to give up. For we, or at least someone very similar to...

That’s not cool, Blake. What’s next? Trying to stop a moving vehicle by standing in front of it, but whoops, I can’t do that and now I’m dead?

When I cry – when I let myself cry – that’s who I cry for. I don’t cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that’s gone.And I wonder what that Cassie would think of...

I was on the floor. “Um, a little help?” Christopher put his hand down. Martini cleared his throat and Christopher’s hand retracted. “I can handle it, thanks.” “There’s nothing amorous about pulling someone off the...

When I was a kidI liked burning ants with a magnifying glass.but I think that progressed into adulthood where I now believe in aliens.

I don’t think I’m being harassed by little green stalkers. I don’t know what’s really going on, but I’d rather try to eliminate all rational excuses before blaming intergalactic monkeys from the fourth dimension who...

Should we be good?” I almost always get an answer.

It wouldn’t be fair to rank them.” Caleb gunned the engine.

I feel alive when you kiss me.

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts,” I said to the EMT as I picked up a silver gadget that looked disturbingly like an alien orifice probe, broke it, then promptly put it...

We want to know. We want to know who we are and what we are capable of.I want to know.And yet we were dragged into another war. Another seemingly inevitable and gruesome legacy passed down,...

Yeah, and shit floats.” Lesa took her seat, yanking out last night’s English homework.

Aliens who have been smuggled into the U.S. have often been coached by members of the smuggling organization on what to say and what not to say.

We lifted up and then bobbed.”Back! Pull it back!” (Christopher)”It’s hard.” (Kitty)”The ground is harder!” (Christopher)

If you’re not, you will be when you poke your eye out on one of them.

They do not like evidence like that, anything too definite because our first instinct is to find flaws and debunk. They want to be discussed and portrayed, but never proven. They want to be credited...

Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed—if they’re here, I want to know about them.

We won—this little conflict and a thousand like it—because we were destined to win. The universe will allow no other outcome.

Earth girls aren’t easy.

He struck his temples with his fists and screamed: ‘Haven’t you ever seen a goddam DC converter? You can get them at Radio Shack for three bucks! Are you seriously trying to tell me you...

You tell me you love me, but I’m not sure you know what love is, or how fast it flies, or how much it resembles a UFO, or what kind of weapon you’d use to...

I thought carefully as I watched Eyuran treat Uncle Orewen’s wounds. There is no one in their right mind who would assault a Danna, simply because the enemy of an individual becomes the enemy of...

The kid is scary.

If only Myrtle would pay attention to the Boy’s Own Journal, Blackwood’s Magazine, etc., she would know that these creatures were Threls, who come from a worldlet called Threlfall on the far side of the...

Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. There has been a certain amount of reverse engineering that has allowed some of these craft, or...

I’d always known that when you went through one of these doors, you went to another planet, and that that other planet might be so far away, you couldn’t fly there in spaceship in a...

I know for a fact the first UFOs reported in modern times, just before the crash at Roswell, were boomerang shaped and were reported as ‘flying saucers’ to describe the motion of their flight, like...

Tunazaliwa na kufa. Lakini hatujui tunakotoka. Wala hatujui tunakokwenda. Huenda tunatoka na kwenda katika dunia nyingine, ya ulimwengu mwingine, hivyo kutufanya wageni wa dunia yetu wenyewe. Acha dunia katika hali nzuri kuliko ulivyoikuta.

If I knew that, ma’am, I probably wouldn’t need to be there.

Driving in your world seems a bit dangerous.

Last-Minute Message For a Time CapsuleI have to tell you this, whoever you are:that on one summer morning here, the oceanpounded in on tumbledown breakers,a south wind, bustling along the shore,whipped the froth into little...

I believe in true love. But my opinion is tainted, because I also believe in Bigfoot, aliens, and in the existence of honest politicians.

Monsters don’t heal people. Angels do. – Sabrina

There are employers in this state who are more than willing to hire illegal aliens. Hiring illegal aliens distorts the labor market and reduces income for our citizens.

What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason?” he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control.”For one thing, Djetth, he wasn’t trying to kill me!”(“Marsh”, heroine of Insufficient...

If I ever see an alien fishing in Scotland, and witness it catching the Loch Ness Monster, I’d probably assume the world would want me to write a poem about the event, rather than take...

A head began emerging out of the darkness. It had two large antennae growing out of its forehead, with nothing recognizable as eyes. A mouth in the middle of its face opened in what I...

That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

He made sure his tone remained casual. He was trying to keep his son unaware of the encroaching alien invasion for as long as he could, be it another day or another hour. Once innocence...

There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A constant white noise.

Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project’s idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy...

Of course. I died today, and now I’m going to fight aliens with a light saber. Maybe after that we can look for mermaids. Or unicorns.””No,” he says. “Just aliens.”Was that the barest hint of...

This capacity to fold the completely weird into daily life, to make the aliens ourselves, is a quality I look for in a good, weird book.