50wordstories.ca » alien https://50wordstories.ca/blog "Brevity is the soul of wit" -- Shakespeare Fri, 03 May 2013 19:31:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Enemy Theirs https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=265 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=265#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:00:41 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=265 Two enemy pilots crashed onto an uninhabited planet while engaged.

They gradually learned to trust each other, and became good friends.

The alien pilot told the human he was pregnant (don’t ask) then died.

The human’s bittersweet joy at this event was interrupted when thousands of baby aliens devoured him.

]]> https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?feed=rss2&p=265 0 The Sci-fi Paradox https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=76 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=76#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:00:55 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=76 He was dating two girls at the same time. Except, one was actually his mother. And the other was his sister. Actually, his sister was technically his brother. Also, his father was actually an alien from Andromeda. Their memories had all been wiped. This all happened in an alternate timeline.

]]> https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?feed=rss2&p=76 1 The Message https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=63 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=63#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:00:56 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=63 The squiggles had to be an alien message. He looked again, hoping to see some overall pattern… For weeks, he’d found these squiggles that no human hands could have made on his papers. He left, frustrated.

A spider fell into his ink, then walked around the blank sheets of paper.

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