Aliens’ Vice by Alexandra Norton EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Alexandra Norton
- Language: English
- Formats: PDF/ePub
- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: First Contact Science Fiction
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: March 11, 2023
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The winter air was crisp in my lungs as I jogged to my personal
finish line: a lamppost next to a familiar green bench in Central
Park. My thighs and calves were on fire as I sprinted the last hundred feet or
so, stumbling to a stop.
I pressed my gloved hand against the lamppost and panted, steam
billowing from my mouth in the cold. Catching my breath, I tilted my head
up to the clear sky; it was a sunny winter morning. A thick wreath of needles
and baubles swayed above me, strung between the posts on either side of the
path.
Crimson bows decorated each post, glistening faintly with overnight
frost. Central Park was only beginning to see its first walkers. I smiled at a
couple walking a grinning Golden past me as I bent over to touch my toes,
enjoying the satisfying pull in my hamstrings. Wollmann Rink on my right
was empty save for a looming Christmas tree towering in its center, a
polished sheet of ice ready for blades to carve swooping patterns in its virgin
surface.
After a quick cooldown stretch, I finally allowed myself to settle on the
green bench. I reclined sideways, leaning against the black metal handle,
stretching my legs.
I looked up toward the peaks of Manhattan. I could make out my little
office from there. It was a window high up in one of the concrete mammoths
reaching for the clouds. A small smile played on my lips.
Kak? You there?
He wouldn’t actually hear my thoughts. Aliens weren’t telepathic unless
mid-mold or mid-dream, apparently. But he’d sense that I was thinking about
him. As if on cue, a tentative tendril coiled out from my sternum.
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