It was about 3am early Monday morning,
as near as he can tell, that New Primate Nooz reporter Eric Scotmeister
Fleiglehaus was abducted by anthropoid aliens from the planet Zarkon.
He thinks he was in Hellmouth, or it could have been Cheesequake
or Runnamuck, at least somewhere in the muddy Horntoad River Valley, as
near as he can remember, when several either very small or very large
aliens with silver heads and protruding ischial callosities burst into
his house, or someone else's house he might have been staying at, or a
campsite or hotel (he isn't exactly sure). There were either four
or eleven of them, and they spoke in sharp, buzzing voices that caused
his ears to hurt. They appeared to be dressed in some kind of clear cellophane
clothes that revealed either dark-brown or cream-colored hair underneath.
They gripped his arms with their opposable thumbs and looked at
him through eyes that were large and round, or in some cases small and
oval. It seemed to him that he began to be able to understand what
they were saying, and he believes now that they were asking him for gobo
roots, or something else. It was evident to him by then that these
were creatures from the planet Zarkon, and he started shivering. qadaf
lgajh nkkjfgl mlgl obnbp iptFijs ghrtkqtnk,
one of them suddenly said in a voice like an oboe that he could only hear
in his head, and then followed that up with the apparently hearty and
heartfelt expostulation Qvguelll gdjsd
Yggf gfahsk hUJZ!
He tried to tell them
that gobo roots were out of season, and that he was getting a headache,
but the buzzing noises only increased. lshk
klhdoe ohfR Hhgjg? one seemed
to be asking him over and over, but he didn't know the correct answer.
Finally one of the creatures came up and put its face right in front of
his, and enunciated quite clearly, Jhdrtkew
Qhl nerrykll klsY fGd? and he
almost instinctively understood this to mean, "Do you want to go
home?" He nodded yes, and there was a tremendous feeling of
acceleration, forcing him back into his couch and causing him to black
out temporarily. When the pressure lifted from his head, he found
himself sitting in his own living room watching Jerry Springer. He
barely had time to jot down a few notes about his bizarre experience before
falling asleep again. When he woke up in the morning, he found his
TV picture tube was broken and so was every lightbulb in his house. He
reported the incident to publisher Arnett Putney, III and Executive Editor
Widen Lundale, Jr. and it is that report from which the above story was
summarized. Since his return from this wierd extra-earthly experience,
Mr. Fleiglehaus has remained convinced that there were other things that
happened that day (or night, whatever), things he was made to forget,
and he has promised to be the first one to tell you readers anything that
he is able to remember, if in fact he remembers anything.
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