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“Listen, you have time to look at some maps? I think I’ve found the Badlands Guardian on an old topo map I dug up from a file box in the basement.” “Nice day,” she said, looking over the fence at the hay field next door and the rolling prairie beyond. Finishing her geology degree would have to wait until after–, until after–. She’d moved back home last week, right after the cancer diagnosis, right before final exams. Either he’d shrunk or she’d grown taller since she’d left for university. He looked frailer and the sun shone through the hair on top of his head. “Right here, Dad.” She crossed the yard towards him. “There you are.” His voice had lost some of its power after Mom had died in a car accident seven years ago.
With long practice, she scooted around the corner of the garage, cutting off her father’s approach, giving Alan time to fade into the shadows. She puffed air out her nose, trying to blow away Alan’s odor, a strong smell–like Harvard beets mixed with rotten tuna. Here on the edge of town behind the garage, there was no one to see them, except a couple of red foxes. Several times, she’d almost blurted it out to her parents, but there were enough childish reasons to be mad at them–well-intentioned teasing, undeserved punishments–that she never had. By the time she was nine, she knew no one would believe her. Dad had talked about aliens since, well, always, but she’d been slow to realize not all little kids had secret alien friends. She’d been fascinated by spies and puzzles and locks and keys.
She’d never told a soul.Īt that age, secrecy had been everything. She couldn’t pronounce his name so she’d called him Alan. He’d trundled up to her in her sandbox one day and studied the miniature Stonehenge she’d built from twigs and rocks and Legos. Alan never had, and, as far as she knew, had never even spoken with anyone else.Īlan had been meeting her here on Saturday mornings since she was seven years old. They would have given her a hug, at least. Her friends would have understood how hard it was to watch Dad hide his pain. She should have gone to see her old friends in town instead of joining the silly old alien behind the garage. Maybe I Love Lucy or Leave It to Beaver, some show where someone was given a cup of tea as a consolation. He must be imitating an old sitcom, handing her the beer.
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But then, he wasn’t human, was he? Alan had learned English on his way to Earth by studying the broadcasts of old TV shows but he didn’t seem to have learned much else about humankind in his fourteen years here.
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Didn’t even know how to offer simple human comfort. His mud-brown eyes widened and he started to say something but silently offered her a bottle of Rusty Red Plow instead. “He’s dying.”Īlan swallowed several times and his tendrils jerked in agitation. “For my, erh, scrapbook.” His English was good but some things apparently didn’t translate well. “I took an, erh, hologram of the egg,” he told her gleefully, his voice thick with phlegm. She barely heard Alan as he went on and on about his most recent trip, to see the giant Easter egg statue in eastern Alberta, and the other attractions he’d visited since she’d left town last year. She rocked her lawn chair slowly back and forth in the early morning sun.
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He grew more excited, his beige skin turned mauve as he finished his breakfast beer. Megan watched with dull eyes as Alan’s tendrils undulated above his head, making odd silhouettes on the garage wall. Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at. The story originally aired Augas Cast of Wonders 174.
We hope you enjoy slush reader Sally Gill’s favorite story from 2015, Take A Good Look by Holly Schofield and narrated by Stephanie Morris. We’re running 10 staff pick episodes over the month, each one hosted by a different member of the Cast of Wonders crew. As part of joining the Escape Artists family, this year we’re pulling out all the stops. Every year in January, Cast of Wonders takes the month off to recharge our batteries, plan the year ahead, and highlight some of our favourite episodes.
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