Sunday, May 16, 2009
Dark Side of the Moon
Current mood: focused
Category: Writing and Poetry
Roswell isn’t the only place aliens crashed.
In the early 1960s, the Kryszka crash near Philadelphia, nearly killing the star-traveling passengers. Two scouts, Eigil and his mother, tunnel above ground to explore. Disaster might still have been avertedif only it didn’t cross some hunter’s mind to shoot Eigil’s mother. But these are troubled, and frightening times, and frightened people often turn to violence.
Something inside Eigil snaps, and he descends into bitter hatred and fury. He swears revenge on the murdering natives of this alien world. He gazes at the sky, contemplates the moons surrounding his home planet, and promises himself to show humanity the dark side of their moon. He will hunt them, feed on them, treat them like cattle, and destroy them.
And kill them he does, for Eigil and his followers decide that human meat is very tasty. More potent is the taste of fear, gotten when they tear through their victims alive. It gets even better when they draw it out, one small body part at a time. Sometimes he will lie low so he will learn what he can about the humans. He is always watching. Always.
Harry becomes his prime target. He just buried his mother and his siblings blame him for her death. Also worrisome are reports of grisly murders and disappearances. When the Kryszka kill one of his own, he finds courage and strength of purpose, using his anger to protect his family. But he has to deal with the dragon of alcoholism. It’s a tough swim upward from the bottom of a bottle. Though his dragon may step aside, it never leaves him. Can Harry find the underground city, make peace with estranged relatives, stop Eigil’s corrupt plans, and do it all without taking a drink:
Becky, a successful college professor married to a doctor, appears to have at all. But she isn’t human quite. Underneath her scholarly exterior lies a wild telekinetic force created by mixing of alien and human genes. She drowns her sorrows in Mylar balloons (like yours truly). Unlike yours truly, Becky’s Mylar balloons are analogous to Checkov’s gun. If you see guns on the wall in the first act, they had better go off before the end of the play. Well, I don’t know about the balloons, but the helium inside them becomes crucial to the war. How? Read the book and find out.
Room
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