![]() The Bay It BuzzA Story by Harris![]() A story of alien confusion and disappointment.![]() THE BAY IT BUZZ I
knew they were lying. "Don
burry Bill, ebryting bill be albright" in that crazy accent of theirs with
their "B's" and "W's" crossed. The
house was a horrible mess. The furniture was dirty and old. What pictures there
were were crooked and not of anything anyone in their right mind would hang on a wall--a photo of a toilet
seat, a painting of a rumpled sheet of paper. The yard was littered with
newspaper, the lawn was some sickly tufts of wiry grass, the gate was hanging
by a single hinge. "Ebryting
bill be just the bay it buzz", he had said. But it buzzn’t… er, wasn’t.. It
wasn't just that the house was a mess, it's what lay beyond the gate that
really stunned me. Desert. There were a few forlorn little houses like mine and then nothing but scrub and dust and
tumbleweed as far as the eye could see. "You
call this the way it was?" I said to Bork. The alien stood a full seven
feet tall and grinned down at me with its idiotic grin and its shiny suit. It
looked human but you could tell he wasn't really. "Bell,
it buzz harder den be taut. Wut all in all not too wad." I
could only groan for what was once a lovely midwestern town in the corn-belt.
Put through Bork's analyzer it was supposed to be digitized and reassembled
exactly the way it was. But it
didn't take a genius to see that the reality that went in wasn't what came out.
In went my sofa with the art deco arms and the fabulous fabric I searched all
over Chicago for and out came this cheapo used Sears hide-a-bed I wouldn't sit
a dog on. In went my little dog, Muffy, and out came this cat-like fur beast. "Stop"
I yelled. "You're getting it
all wrong." "Don burry," Bork said and squirted me with something that knocked me out for a week. When I came to things were pretty strange and Bork and his pals were gone. He paid me though, just as he promised. I have a stack of hundred dollar bills in the basement. Every one has a picture of George Bush on it. © 2010 HarrisAuthor's Note
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Added on March 22, 2010 Last Updated on March 22, 2010 Tags: sciebce fiction, aliens, human alien interaction Author![]() HarrisCharlottesville, VAAboutWriting away in Charlottesville. Two crime novels published so far, a dozen children's books and piles of short stories. more..Writing
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