Audiobook - Little Ambushes

A beautiful tale on Escape Pod 221 about an alien artist. But aren't all artists a little alien? Read by Rachel Swirsky.

Practically the first thing she did when she took in the alien was to give him a new name. He looked at her outstretched hand long enough to annoy her, and then grasped it with his four opposable fingers and hung on limply until she wrenched her hand out of his moist and over-jointed grip.

She said, “I’m Sarah,” and he said his name, or what she assumed was his name, in return, rolling the syllables around in his mouth like so many rough pebbles. His name was too long, something like Shperidth with extra grunting noises in the middle, like a car backfiring very far away. She tried to repeat it and couldn’t, while he stood on her doorstep sweating and folding his fingers around each other. She frowned at him.

“I can’t say that,” she said.

Rated PG-13 for some adult situations and coarse language.

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• EP221: Little Ambushes - By Joanne Merriam

Author: Pesc Spad, for AZ10.com ~ 5 Nov 2009

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