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    Beware Of The Prizes
    Beware Of The Prizes
    Beware Of The Prizes
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    Beware Of The Prizes

    By EK Gillcoan

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    This collection of short science fiction stories from EK Gillcoan includes the following:

    There Once Was An Alien From Nantucket
    The Parsec 3.26
    Under New Management
    Olympus Mons Estates
    The Stairway
    The BDO
    The Prizes

    (8500 words total)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEK Gillcoan
    Release dateApr 18, 2013
    ISBN9781301803255
    Beware Of The Prizes
    Author

    EK Gillcoan

    Author of R. Nevada, S.P.I. series of tongue-in-cheek sci-fi books, devoted husband of Brade Gillcoan (until she gets sick of being married to an obsessive writer) and loyal companion to spoiled Peek-a-poo, Mr. Barkly...

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      Book preview

      Beware Of The Prizes - EK Gillcoan

      Beware of the Prizes

      Short Stories

      By

      EK Gillcoan

      Copyright © 2013 EK Gillcoan

      All Rights Reserved

      Smashwords Edition

      Please respect the rights

      of the author of this work.

      None of the content of

      this Ebook, nor any part thereof, can be

      copied or redistributed.

      ***

      This collection of short stories

      is dedicated to

      Edgar,

      the best Fooder on Mars…

      ***

      These stories are works of fiction.

      Any similarity of places, events or aliens

      described in these stories

      to real places, events or aliens

      is purely coincidental.

      **

      Table of Contents

      There Once Was An Alien From Nantucket

      The Parsec 3.26

      Under New Management

      Olympus Mons Estates

      The Stairway

      The BDO

      The Prizes

      **

      There Once Was An Alien From Nantucket

      (The Wash-Ashores)

      Or

      The Gray Lady

      A Short Story

      By

      EK Gillcoan

      Copyright © 2013 EK Gillcoan

      All Rights Reserved

      **

      This story is dedicated to anyone

      who has walked on the beach under a full moon

      and wished they could

      return to their

      home planet...

      - EKG

      **

      There Once Was An Alien From Nantucket

      There it/she was again, sitting on a bar stool dressed like a human woman, sucking back a draft and chatting up some fisherman. Why was it that I seemed to be the only one able to recognize her for what she is? It must be, it had to be some sort of mass hypnosis that I'm somehow immune to; mind control on the deepest level.

      The Rooster Cage, The Cage as everyone calls it, is packed as usual on a Friday night in August. The customary eclectic mix of humans is crammed into the bar to hear loud music, drink large amounts of alcoholic beverages, and troll for sexual partners. The well-groomed, carefree progeny of the wealthy mingle with rough, bait-stained scallopers, middle class summer-jobbers, weekend tourists just off the boat and local lost souls. I don't recall how long this place has been here, but I know I love sitting in the corner watching the show. Here in this dusky room, in The Cage, all was equal. Alcohol, hormones, and similar desires cut across the class barriers. They were all after the same thing and would turn a blind eye to their differences - at least until last call.

      The alien, I call her the gray lady, is very good at the pool game. It seems to come natural to her for some reason, wielding the stick like a master. She'd lean over and look down the table

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