Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
Word Count: 100 words
The Visitor
©October 13th, 2014
By Vijaya Sundaram
The Visitor looked around.
Cautiously, she tapped the glowing brass disc. A shimmer made her rear back.
Surveying the row of white and black teeth, arrayed like a beast without a body, she thought, “I must not fear.”
She let her extremities travel over the teeth. The beast did not stir.
When she bumped against something, a red light glowed. She leaned against the teeth, smooth and white, and a strangely beautiful, discordant noise blasted out of something behind her. She hissed.
Dust from some explosion lay in stillness about her.
She sniffed delicately. “Human,” she thought, turning to go.
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