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An Agreement with Aliens

DrTonyMcCaffrey > July 27th, 2021, 07:27 AM

A small town lost many citizens to alien abductions, so the town leaders intervened to make a deal with the aliens. It was more like a deal with the devil. In exchange for giving up one child a year to the aliens, the aliens would provide any medicine needed to keep everyone else in the town healthy.

No relevant articles. Just pure fiction.
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Michael > September 4th, 2021, 01:24 AM

What would such aliens do with their abductees or sacrifices?

I've never been wholly satisfied by stories that try to answer such questions.
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DrTonyMcCaffrey > September 7th, 2021, 11:07 AM

I don't know. I just modeled this after the short story "The Lottery."
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Michael > September 9th, 2021, 01:19 AM

That's a depressing story! But it's an interesting twist.

Maybe these aliens would be farming humans, perhaps milking them for something not so obvious in your seed idea. As I think about this, I'd say the opportunity for a writer is to explain WHY the arrangement is necessary. The arrangement itself is just a way to get the story moving.
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