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My Alien
By Angela Hadley
Sunday, November 04, 2001

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I stand naked in the cubicle. The uniformed customs officer has taken my clothes away in her black plastic bag, and left me standing nervously under the insistent eye of a tiny security camera.

I imagine smirking men gathered round the TV monitor, snickering. I stand stock still....

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Reviewed by 5/17/2002

The basic idea is from an old film which I THINK is called Microcosmos, where they shrink a probe called Microcosmos to a size small enough to be injected into a rabbit. Something goes wrong (I don't remember what) and it accidentally gets injected into a human being.

However, I like the way you describe the two characters and their actions and I really like that the alien has in the end left "your" body. Otherwise it would spoil you...if it already hasn't...

Reviewed by Ian Thorpe 11/25/2001

Fascinating, funny and I'm sure I've met that officer on my way through customs. A well visualized and well written story.

Reviewed by Douglas Dewell 11/4/2001

fresh. I liked it.

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