Genre: Goofy Science-Fiction
Word Count: 100 words
Slugging Through The Cosmos
©June 5th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
We are the Slug-People. No, wait! Don’t back away from us. We come in peace, we truly do.
See, we got stranded on your lovely blue-green-white planet. We wanted a piece of it.
Our planet, which was all green and blue like yours, blew up. Nobody on any planet we visited believed us. Someone blamed it on my colleagues and me. We were trying to find food for everyone. It’s what we always did. Slowly, we ate our dense, green planet. Then, it combusted spontaneously.
No, we don’t mean to harm you.
Could you spare us just one green island?
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